{"id":119767,"date":"2026-08-18T13:25:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T07:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=119767"},"modified":"2026-08-18T13:25:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T07:55:41","slug":"lake-powell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/lake-powell\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Lake Powell Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lake Powell, one of the largest reservoirs in the United States, has fallen to its lowest level since it began filling, deepening concerns over the future of the Colorado River and the millions of people who rely on it.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Lake Powell<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>huge man-made lake<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> located on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/colorado-river\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Colorado River <\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and stretches across parts of Utah and Arizona in the<\/span><b> United States.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lake was created by<\/span><b> building the Glen Canyon Dam,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which <\/span><b>flooded Glen Canyon.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s the<\/span><b> second-largest reservoir in the United States by volum<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e (<\/span><b>second only to Lake Mead).\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When full, it is designed to hold more than 26 million acre-feet (MAF) of water that originates from snowpack in the Upper Colorado River Basin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It acts like a giant water bank for states in the Upper Colorado River Basin.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lake Powell is an <\/span><b>oligotrophic reservoir<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which means that <\/span><b>nutrient concentrations and algal production<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are generally <\/span><b>low<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This often results in very <\/span><b>clear-water conditions.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lake is also a <\/span><b>major recreation area, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">known for magnificent <\/span><b>sandstone canyons <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>rock formations. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneycontrol.com\/world\/what-record-low-water-levels-at-lake-powell-could-mean-article-14007641.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Powell is a huge man-made lake located on the Colorado River and stretches across parts of Utah and Arizona in the United States.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":119750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9614],"class_list":["post-119767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-lake-powell","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119784,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119767\/revisions\/119784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}