The Lake Mead National Recreation Area is only a short 32km (20 miles) drive southeast of the Las Vegas strip along the I-515 S and takes 25 minutes. It’s 290 miles northeast of Los Angeles.

Lake Mead is holding steady, about 7 feet lower than it was last year, but projections released Tuesday show it will have a steep drop in 2027.

“If the lake goes down much farther, it’s very possible we’re going to have some very interesting things surface,” said Michael Green, a University of Nevada, Las Vegas history professor ...

First, the dropping lake level exposed Las Vegas' uppermost drinking water intake on April 25, forcing the regional water authority to switch to a deep-lake intake it completed in 2020 to continue ...

In 2020, the authority completed its low-level pumping station that will ensure that water can be pumped to Las Vegas even if Lake Mead drops another 150 feet to its “dead pool” level of 895 ...

In 1990, 3 billion gallons of water were diverted from Lake Mead for the construction of Lake Las Vegas. The Southern Nevada Water Authority was formed in 1991 when the concept of the “return ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The water facility at Lake Mead was created as a buffer just in case water levels at Lake Mead continued to drop. On Wednesday, the plant had to get rid of the dissipaters ...

(CNN) — Human remains discovered at Boulder Beach on Lake Mead in Nevada during July and August 2022 have been identified as a 52-year-old man who disappeared in 1998, according to the Clark ...

Drought reveals long-lost remains at Lake Mead 02:56. Authorities in Las Vegas have identified bones found in May along part of Lake Mead's newly exposed shoreline as the remains of a 42-year-old ...