article_snippet: The lake, from which the Colorado eventually snakes through Grand Canyon National Park, has lost 4.4 trillion gallons of water in a recent drought.
article_snippet: The river's basin has been experiencing a recent drought for eleven of the last 14 years, shrinking a reservoir that was one-fourth the size of Rhode Island when it was at 'full pool', according to National Geographic.
article_snippet: The reservoir is now at 45 per cent capacity after losing water from drought for most of the past 14 years .
article_snippet: Lake Powell has lost 4.4 trillion gallons of water this century, rapidly decreasing in size from 1999 to 2013 .
highlights_snippet: Eleven of the past 14 years have been droughts for Lake Powell reservoir .
  
highlights_snippet: Reservoir at Arizona-Utah border is 45 per cent below 'full pool' capacity .
  