A study from Arizona State University has found that an amount of water comparable to Lake Mead has been lost from the ground in the period studied from April 2002 to October 2024. (Allen J ...

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.

Projections show Lake Mead remaining just above 1,050 feet by later this year, so it would not set a new record low this year." Long-range projections show even lower water levels by later 2026 ...

The amount of groundwater that has been pumped out of the Colorado River Basin since 2003 is enough to fill Lake Mead, ... with deep fissures forming in parts of the state as ground water has been ...

A huge help to that mission came with the completion of the Central Arizona Project in the 1990s. Meant to stop overreliance on groundwater, the 336-mile pipeline transports water from Lake Havasu ...

A boater gets an up-close view of the “bathtub ring” on Lake Mead — evidence of its low water level — while touring Hoover Dam. A study from Arizona State University has found that an ...

A Lake Mead’s worth of water has vanished from the ground. Could Las Vegas suffer? An Arizona State University study has placed a microscope on groundwater pumping in the Colorado River Basin.

The water beneath our feet that we use to bathe, drink and water crops is vanishing faster than ever in the Colorado River Basin, according to a new study. A Lake Mead’s worth of water has ...

While it’s true that Las Vegas relies on surface water from Lake Mead for 90% of its supply, that’s an increasingly limited resource it shares with six other states, Native American tribes and ...

Groundwater in the Colorado River Basin has declined by 27.8 million acre-feet from April 2002 to October 2024, a loss comparable to Lake Mead and occurring about twice as fast as surface water ...