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

A year shy of its 90th anniversary, experts still marvel at the construction of the Hoover Dam, one of the most visited sites ...

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 ...

Still, Hoover Dam and the reservoir it props up were his crowning achievement. “Lake Mead was a monument to this preeminent champion of the conquest of the arid West,” wrote author James ...

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

From outside, this vast construction is about size, scale and spectacle. Once inside, it becomes more about appreciating how ...

This 'Lost City' boasts a house that had a massive 100 rooms inside it while still being partly submerged underwater.

As the DISCOVERY Children's Museum prepares to open its newly renovated Water World exhibit on Thursday, March 13, the ...

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

Facing a dwindling supply that provoked emergency actions to keep the river flowing past Hoover Dam, Congress directed $4 billion to ... to conserve water and protect critical levels in Lake Mead.” ...

The Hoover Dam captures water from the Colorado River and fills Lake Mead. The dam also generates enough energy each year to serve 1.3 million people in Nevada, Arizona and California, the ...