Environmental reporter Tony Davis on the threat of 'dead pool' levels affecting water supply
Longtime Arizona Daily Star reporter Tony Davis explains what "dead pool" means as water levels shrink along the Colorado River.
Longtime Arizona Daily Star reporter Tony Davis explains what "dead pool" means as water levels shrink along the Colorado River.
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For Star subscribers: Debate over how to manage Lake Powell rages on as environmentalists prepare for when Lake Powell drops too low to deliver water.
Longtime Arizona Daily Star environmental reporter Tony Davis sits down to discuss his inves…
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation last summer announced that drought-ravaged Lake Powell and Lake Mead had fallen to Tier 2A levels, triggering previously agreed-upon cuts to water supplied to states in the lower basin of the Colorado River, beginning on Jan. 1.
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