{"id":335105,"date":"2026-05-27T23:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/335105\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T23:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:16:13","slug":"what-the-colorado-river-drought-means-for-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/335105\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Colorado River Drought Means for California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado River basin and its two largest reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead, are facing record-low water levels. We talk with environment journalists about what this could mean here in California.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/colorado-river.jpg\"  alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>PAGE, ARIZONA &#8211; APRIL 30: The Colorado River winds through the valley near Horseshoe Bend before entering Marble Canyon on its southwest journey on April 30, 2026, near Page, Arizona.\u00a0(RJ Sangosti\/MediaNews Group\/The Denver Post via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Guests:<\/p>\n<p>Camille von Kaenel, California environment reporter, Politico<\/p>\n<p>Luke Runyon, co-director, The Water Desk, Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder<\/p>\n<p>Celene Hawkins, director, Colorado River Program, The Nature Conservancy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado River basin and its two largest reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead, are facing record-low water&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-335105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}