Las Vegas has now gone 212 days without rain, and all of Clark County is under either extreme or exceptional drought, but water levels at Lake Mead keep rising. Newsweek reached out to the National ...

But the terrain here is something entirely different. At the summit, you'll be rewarded with sweeping views of Lake Mead, Hoover Dam, and, depending on the season, snow-capped mountains on the ...

the Hoover Dam spans the Colorado River and the Black Canyon (which separates Nevada and Arizona). The immense concrete structure – which confines Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United ...

As Lake Mead’s water level continues to fall amid ... another 160 feet to its “dead pool,” the point at which Hoover Dam would be unable to release water downstream. John Fleck, a water ...

Latest estimates place the Upper Colorado River Basin snowpack at just 83 percent of the historic median for this time of year.