As Lake Powell hits record lows, is filling a new drought pool the answer?
Two years ago, this unprecedented megadrought prompted all seven [Colorado River Basin] states to agree, for the first time, to a dual drought contingency plan — one for the upper basin and one for the lower. … But in the upper basin, though the states agreed to their own drought contingency plan, they still haven’t agreed on the biggest, most controversial of the plan’s elements: setting aside up to 500,000 acre-feet of water in a special, protected drought pool in Lake Powell.