In drought-stricken West, emergency actions weighed over dropping Lake Powell water levels

Officials had hoped snowmelt would buoy Lake Powell on the Arizona-Utah border. But snow is already melting, and hotter-than-normal temperatures and prolonged drought are further shrinking the lake.

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