{"id":228676,"date":"2022-04-01T23:21:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T23:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/shock-before-and-after-pictures-show-how-water-supply-at-crucial-lake-powell-has-dried-up-amid-climate-crisis"},"modified":"2022-04-01T23:21:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T23:21:29","slug":"shock-before-and-after-pictures-show-how-water-supply-at-crucial-lake-powell-has-dried-up-amid-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/shock-before-and-after-pictures-show-how-water-supply-at-crucial-lake-powell-has-dried-up-amid-climate-crisis","title":{"rendered":"Shock before and after pictures show how water supply at crucial Lake Powell has dried up amid climate crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The climate crisis is happening all around us, all the time, but few places illustrate its dramatic effects better than Arizona&#8217;s red rock Lake Powell, the second-largest man-made reservoir in the country, which supplies water and power to millions throughout the West.The reservoir is only about 24 per cent full, the lowest level since 1963, when the reservoir was created alongside the Glen Canyon Dam to serve as the West&#8217;s water &#8220;bank account.&#8221;Photos of iconic sites at the reservoir, including Lone Rock Beach, now show sandy lake bed with dried up plants which have appeared in the span of just a year.What&#8217;s underway at Lake Powell, however, is far from just a shocking image.The reservoir supplies more than 40 million people across seven US states, multiple tribal nations, and Mexico with water for irrigation and drinking.(Getty Images)The falling lake levels, thanks in large part to the climate change-inflected &#8220;megadrought&#8221; causing the driest conditions in over 1,000 years, are threatening to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The climate crisis is happening all around us, all the time, but few places illustrate its dramatic effects better than Arizona&#8217;s red rock Lake Powell, the second-largest man-made reservoir in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[215],"class_list":["post-228676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}