http://www.newsweek.com/colorado-river-drying-lake-mead-lake-powell-1776224 > The start of 2023 has brought severe storms to much of the southwestern United States. But despite the rain and snow, water levels in the nation's two largest reservoirs are still well below average. > Lake Mead and Lake Powell are the largest and second-largest water reservoirs in the U.S., respectively. Both reservoirs are fed by the Colorado River, a 1,450-mile-long waterway that stretches from the Rocky Mountains to northern Mexico.