This article describes the current crisis state of US hydropower due to drought conditions. Millions of people are affected.
, a reservoir on the border of Arizona and Utah, is also slowly but surely drying. It’s situated behind the 1,320-megawatt Glen Canyon Dam and power station. With the role of providing power for some 3 million customers in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, this news is startling. Lake Powell has lostof its potential storage capacity since 1986, when the last survey was completed, and 6.
Climate change is a direct causal factor for the historic dam low levels due to ongoing drought conditions.In October, 2021, Assistant Secretary for Water and Science at the US Department of the Interiorspoke before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife. “I want to reiterate something I and my colleagues across the Administration are focused on every day: climate change is real,” Trujillo affirmed.
The potential energy of the water flowing through turbines with a certain vertical fall, termed hydraulic head, is converted into electricity.
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