Climate & Environment
The Colorado River’s decline threatens hydropower at Glen Canyon Dam. Now, officials are looking at retooling the dam to deal with low water levels.
Feb. 18, 2023
Newly discovered damage in Glen Canyon Dam would require releasing less water at low reservoir levels — a problem that increases water risks in the Southwest.
April 16, 2024
Travel & Experiences
As this video shows, Arizona’s Glen Canyon Dam catches the waters to the Colorado River to make Lake Powell, a vast reservoir in the desert.
May 7, 2019
World & Nation
Judge orders new plan for dam releases into Grand Canyon
May 28, 2009
California
This Tuesday in Los Angeles and on Wednesday in San Francisco, the Department of the Interior will solicit the public’s view on whether it should protect one of the world’s most revered natural treasures or literally allow it to wash away.
March 19, 1990
Drought Is Depleting the Water in Lake Powell. What’s Emergin g Is a Spectacle of Nature Not Seen Since the Building of Glen Canyon Dam.
July 20, 2003
Books
In the fall of 1983, I rode on a Lake Powell houseboat with then Interior Secretary James Watt, who was celebrating the great dam and big reservoir.
Nov. 12, 1989
Early Tuesday morning Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt plans to stand on a catwalk at Glen Canyon Dam, turn a valve, pull a lever and unleash a flood into the Grand Canyon.
March 24, 1996
Podcasts
The main way the American West harvests the Colorado River for its water use is through dams that create reservoirs. But those reservoirs are quickly drying up because of climate change. Can knocking some dams down help?
Jan. 20, 2023
* “Delta a Snag in Babbitt’s Plan for Colorado River” (Dec. 26) described the devastation that lack of flow in the Colorado River has brought to its once verdant delta in Mexico.
Jan. 1, 2001