According to Boing Boing, Lake Powell's water level is closing in on a critical threshold. The reservoir now sits just thirty-eight feet above minimum power pool—the level where Glen Canyon Dam stops generating electricity. While still more than one hundred fifty feet above dead pool, the lake's decline is moving from theoretical concern to urgent reality, reviving long-standing debates about western water management and putting the region's hydropower future in sharper focus.

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