Reservoirs are at capacity, leading to dangerous water levels in the Jordan River — and Salt Lake County ... Lately, the water flow has been rising and speeding up. “I saw the water ...

Release it too late, Hansen explained, and it would flow down the Jordan River the same time the snowmelt came in from the Cottonwood Canyons, creating a flood risk along along the river.

Utah water officials began controlled releases of water from Utah Lake this week, sending 23 billion gallons to the Great Salt Lake through the Jordan River. Newsweek reached out to the Central ...

Part of the reason is water scarcity: In the past five decades the Jordan has lost more than 90 percent of its normal flow. Upstream, at the Sea of Galilee, the river's fresh waters are diverted ...

Data from the Water Authority show an exceptionally low flow from the Jordan River, combined with increased water pumping from Israel’s main freshwater reservoir, keeping the level well below ...