http://www.newsweek.com/newsweek-com-colorado-river-rising-lake-mead-drought-1774604

As storms continue to batter the Southwest, water levels in the region's drought-stricken Colorado River are beginning to rise.

"These storms have delivered above average snowpack for this time of year, as well as above normal river flows," Haley Paul, Arizona policy director for the non-profit environmental organization the National Audubon Society, told Newsweek.