Experts warn Colorado River system is heading toward ‘water bankruptcy.'

This winter, the Upper Colorado Basin saw some of the lowest snow totals in recorded history. As a result, federal officials made a decision to limit water releases from Lake Powell downstream in the coming months. Officials say that will result in substantial drops in Lake Mead's elevation. "All we’re seeing are depletions,” Kyle Roerink, advocate with the Great Basin Water Network, said. “We are dealing with changing snowpacks, changing runoff patterns, increasing evaporation rates, drier soils, and other natural phenomena that are depleting our bank accounts and our savings accounts," he said. Water managers face an encroaching deadline for...