KUNC reports that forecasts for the Colorado River have been downgraded after last month’s record-breaking heat wave. In a briefing on Tuesday, the Colorado River Basin Forecast Center projected that just 1.4 million acre-feet of Colorado River water will reach Lake Powell through July — that’s less than a quarter of what’s considered normal, and nearly a million acre-feet less than what was projected a month ago.
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