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

Lake Mead, Southern Nevada’s largest water source, could fall below historic lows by mid-2027, according to a recent ...

If the next two years are drier than usual, Lake Powell’s water levels could drop too low to generate electricity, federal ...

As Colorado River states race to finish a deal, water users face a resource altered by drought and climate change.

The lower basin inked a plan to save Lake Mead in just 4 months. But we're not done Opinion: The 500-plus plan is both unsustainable and necessary - and a reminder of how much there is still to do ...

The Colorado River Basin which supplies water to seven U.S. states is facing "severe water shortages," scientists warn.

Lake Mead (initially formed by the Hoover Dam in 1935) was designed to hold water for the lower basin states. As an “insurance policy,” the upper basin had Lake Powell, which began filling in ...

Lake Mead is the nation's largest reservoir and is part of the Colorado River Basin network, which supplies water to seven U.S. states, 30 tribal nations and also parts of Mexico.

Without significant, permanent cuts to water use in the Colorado River basin, both Lake Powell and Lake Mead may be headed for collapse. That’s according to a new, peer-reviewed paper published ...

It could take at least 500,000 acre-feet of water a year to keep Lake Mead from tanking Opinion: If the Lower Basin states agree to keep this much water in Lake Mead this quickly, it would be an ...

We should address the elephant in the room: There is actually less water in Lake Mead than what the US Bureau of Reclamation reported on Tuesday. And, significantly, it was enough to prevent ...

Lake Mead’s water elevation climbed back to 2021 levels this month thanks to ... Unusually heavy snowfall in winter 2022-23 boosted the Upper Colorado River Basin’s snowpack to more than 150% ...