The Gila River Indian Community negotiated the release of $105 million for conservation initiatives along the Colorado River.

An $86.7 million purification plant could see 56,000 acre-feet of Colorado River water left behind Lake Mead over the next ...

Lake Mead, the largest man-made lake in the US, was created by the building of the Hoover Dam. The reservoir is 640 square kilometres when full, stretching 180 kilometres across the Mojave Desert. Not ...

The pendulum is swinging wildly on federal funding for Lake Mead conservation efforts, creating uncertainty for water users.

Riley Rackliffe stared at the ceiling of his home and weighed the pros and cons of the federal government’s severance package ...

Lakes Mead and Powell, which provide the water that 40 million Americans depend on, are now only about 35% full, climatologist ... basin (the area upstream of Lake Powell) did see a nice boost ...

Lake Mead holds the key to water distribution in Arizona ... 2.8 million acre-foot share of the river because of declines that have left the reservoir 35% full. The loss represents more than a third ...

Two years ago, headlines blared warnings of a Colorado River in crisis, with Lake Mead’s plummeting water levels threatening ...

More than a dozen federal workers at Lake Mead National Recreation Area were among those fired last week as part of the Trump administration’s move to terminate all recent hires across federal ...

In 2022, Lake Mead saw its lowest levels on record, dropping to 1040.92 feet, which is less than 30 percent full. The 2023 winter season brought some relief at of the end of 2024, but Lake Mead is ...

At the time of writing, Lake Mead's water levels were 1,068.23 feet mean sea level, 160.77 feet below its full pool of 1,229, according to Lakes Online, an online resource for lake and reservoir ...

File photo: Low water levels due to drought are seen in the Hoover Dam reservoir of Lake Mead near Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 9, 2021. The recent wet conditions over California allowed for some ...