Glen Canyon Dam releases water 

I’m not trying to be a conspiracy theorist, but there’s no way a beaver made this.

My brain: jump in it

I've read a number of comments that complain about this water being released into the Colorado River. It is evident that the purpose of Lake Powell and the Glen Canyon Dam isn't fully understood. Lake Powell is, in part, a storage reservoir for Lake Mead. Releases here are made daily to supply water to that lake. Releases like this happen once a year or so to send "excess" water to Lake Mead. They also provide a "flood" through the Grand Canyon to clean out debris and "unnecessary" sand bars and "deltas " caused by flash floods on canyon streams during heavy rains. The floods also restore habitat for plants and animals that live in and around the canyon bottom. Naturally the floods add to the water level in Lake Mead. Due to the 20 plus years of drought, here in the southwest, both lakes are depressingly low. A moderately damp summer, last year, and a good snow fall in the upper Colorado River basin, this past winter, Lake Powell is getting a pretty good inflow from the rivers feeding it. Because of that, this release was planned to deliberately send this water to lake Mead. If you live in SoCal, you should be cheering, because this is the water you will be using this summer!

Lots of water experts here in the comments

Well, the flow will still deposit itself in Lake Mead, so that’s a nice offset to the reduction that’s taken place there over the past 20 years

I lived in Page during the late 90’s when Lake Powell was almost at full pool. How things have changed over the past 20+ years. That bathtub ring is ginormous now.

“It won’t do anything for the mega drought!” *flushes thousands of gallons of freshwater out of the reservoir*

Water is the new oil 😂

I'm old ,, I feel like that at night some time

Las Vegas, Arizona, all of Southern California, and a lot of the Southwest would never exist if it wasn’t for this one river The amount of water that actually melts and goes through this rivers all the way to Mexico, and feeds millions and millions of people and farmers in these homes and cities couldn’t exist without it is incredible and fascinating

Looks a lot like the Hoover Dam

Water is the most powerful natural force on earth.

Media: “This will do nothing to stop the mega drought” Mother Nature: “Hold my beer”

They released water on April 25 and 26. Today is April 18. How the hell did we get video from the future?

This is Buc Eees beaver dam

gym understanding is they used to re,ease water to help keep the down river in good shape improving the fisheries

Serious power right there boys and girls!

Gotta love water gotta love life

The Colorado River is about 1,450 mile long river, the 5th longest in the United States of America 🇺🇸

That's a lot of dam water😂

The shadow of something on the dam looks like Pac man

Those guys were just chillin there

Boilermakers dream job.

Now that's cleaning out the pipes.

"Now that's what I call high quality H20." -Bobby Bushay

they were filling up Lake Mead

It's a shame these people don't know how to manage water!

CA should be building new aqueducts, collectors, transport pipes like crazy.. but too little too late. Been in a drought situation for years; need to figure it out CA!!🤔🤔🤔

Imagine you're somewhere at the bottom of this quiet river, then BOOM! The water's starting to move faster, and a rapid wave 🌊 comes around the corner

Where is this drought!? Because here in the MidEast-South it's been raining like crazy. Come get this rain!!! 😫😫😫

I just love America 🇺🇸. I wished every American 🇺🇸 did. 🙏🇺🇸.

What! We have a nearly dry pool, so let’s drain more water! Great idea!

Enjoyed this video. Thanks!

It's good to see it actually has water to release.

you forgot to mention the part where the test failed. Meaning if the water level ever gets below a certain point where they have to use this to move water as the only option. everybody below stream is gonna be cut off. TENS of MILLIONS of people

Awesome power!!

I was in Page AZ to see this last year. The water downstream at Horseshoe Bend went from sandy brown with algae along the sides to blue by the evening.

Wind gusting . . . . . . . . . . Water rumbelling. . . . . . . Water roaring. . . . . . . . . Water thundering. . . . Damn!! 🥵

"this water will do little to reverse the effects of drought" How you know you're reading propaganda, folks. "Massive amounts of snowfall" but does nothing for drought, even though that's ALWAYS the weather cycle each year in the West.

Don’t tell Greta she’ll freak out

Dam.... that's cool

Fast releases raise water levels into dry river shores, which quickly absorb it. Maybe slow er down a bit and let that water reach the draught areas

There’s a reason its called a DESERT

Do they use that beautiful powerful water shooting out to first run some inline electric generator turbines ?😊😊😊

I absolutely did NOT realize the scale of that thing until I saw the tiny vans on top of where the water is coming out. Unreal. Def need to visit this.

They don’t release water for Mexico

I've Been across the bridge in front of that dam

I'm very glad, that snowpack slowly getting back in the West.

Theres no mega drought. Most of the US is almost to normal levels of snow pack. Wish news outlets would stop trying to always scare by saying theres always a drought. Statewide, snow levels were at 104% of average, opens new tab for March 4, according to the California Department of Water Resources, with northern region at 111% of normal and the south at 94%

They do those releases to mimic the annual flood from snowmelt in the Rockies.

Government be like her you get this much water.....any rivers drying up oh that's just climate change

If there’s one thing water is good for, it’s helping fix drought.

first theres a drought now to much water, it always works out

Looks to me like it'll never be full again

Ever since they turned up the weather modification, we have disastrous results.

I've been to that dam a few times. I had no idea one could go down there.

My comment keeps getting deleted

And the idiots in charge busy, not figuring out a solution while dumping the water.

I think it also flushes the sediment out from behind the dam. If it gets too high, these valves might not be able to open. This could be catastrophic in the event of a huge rain or snow melt.

Powell filling back up… let’s just let it out again. WTF.

Maybe the drought exists because you blocked the entire river with a huge f***** dam?

That initial sound of the dam was intense

Builds dam: "Whys there a mega drought?"

look at that video with the eye of power being waisted that much power will run a village and its being thrown away

Good. The lakes should drain it is unnatural to try to live in places not habitable

The amount of force to make the water do that going out of those pipes in such a volume is insane

10 seconds of that much water should last one person a lifetime of water

I came to the comments to see how oblivious some people are. Wasn't disappointed 😂

If you ever get the chance and you're lucky, you'll see this periodically. Oh yeah, Lake Powell has awesome houseboats for rent. We had one for 2 weeks with 2 of my High School friends who were now in their 30s. I was lucky to have lived in Salt Lake City for 34 years so Lake Powell was always on our weekend destinations. So many absolutely gorgeous State and National Parks to either camp or visit.

Thats the grand canyon

In ARIZONA. Love it there!

Absolutely breathtaking

Se mira una obra monumental Saludos desde Quito Ecuador

Impressionnant 😮

Amazing how these are built !

Absolutely Beautiful 💜

I just know even above the concrete you can feel the insane amount of power and weight just eminating from a big rush of water like that below you

Tajikistan 🇹🇯🤝🇺🇲 USA

That jet washing looks good for the river ecology.

That water probably taste good at 2am when you thirsty

Espectacular ese reservorio de agua 👏🏻👏🏻

Look out below

Damn. That’s A LOT of water behind that wall

Just imagine if you fell into this while they are letting the water flow lol. The power of that water would probably crush you. It would be like a giant wave!

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Really, thats amazing. Up close and personal looks majestic ❤

Wow. The Colorado River gets to flow like it was meant to.

For one, it's good that the reservoir is refilling after being deployed so long On the other hand, most of the water demand was actually coming from groundwater not the reservoir, and groundwater replenishes a lot slower if at all

You sure tell the normals from the upside down people real quick here.

my kind of ocean thank you space

Little is better than nothing. That’s still megatons of water.

The mega drought in the desert??? Who would have ever imagined?

That structure is an awesome engineering achievement

All those prayers for more water have now shown up.

It's crazy how many countless millions of people live in places in this country with virtually no natural water source.

A year ago the lake was at its lowest ever. Crazy how nature works.

When you had too much beer last night

I given the idea 💡 for this dam. ❤❤

Think of how much fun the fish are having

Impresionante ingeniería civil