'You're not going to have a river... It would be a catastrophe for the entire system.'
water use cuts in Arizona, Nevada, and parts of Mexico that use water from the rapidly shrinking Colorado River, officials in the region are examining how they can keep Lake Powell and Lake Mead—the largest human-made reservoirs in the U.S.—from reaching dangerous"dead pool" status, in which water levels would drop so low that water no longer flows downstream.According to the U.S.
"The normally placid Lake Powell, the nation's second-largest reservoir, could suddenly transform into something resembling a funnel, with water circling the openings," reported theThat would force turbines which supply 4.5 million people with electricity to shut down, likely triggering financial struggles for people across southwestern states.
As government officials announced over the summer that water levels could approach the dam's underwater openings by next July, the Bureau of Reclamation also
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