Mitchell and Kenney did talk about Mead and Powell, the two big reservoirs in the basin, as all Colorado River conversations ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) issued an extreme heat watch on Monday for the Lake Mead National Recreation Area and ...

Satellite imagery captured by Landsat 7, a joint mission of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and NASA, show a stark ...

More than 90 years after it was created during the Great Depression, Lake Mead provides about 90% of the water supply in Southern Nevada. And while much of the focus is on the lake shrinking, those ...

Nevada game wardens and the National Park Service will be out in force July 4-6 in a cooperative effort to shut down drinking ...

Lake Mead is DRY - and it’s surreal. In today’s adventure, we walked on land that was once 175 feet underwater, too deep for even scuba divers. Now exposed, it’s eerily quiet, hauntingly beautiful, ...

That means Lake Mead will get 7 million acre-feet from Powell in the water year 2021-22, which ends Sept. 30, 2022 — the lowest release from Powell in many years.

As Lake Mead filled this summer with runoff from record snowpack in the Rockies, the ground beneath it began to shake. A string of small earthquakes, more than 20 measuring around 2.0 on the ...

Two years ago, the Colorado River Lower Basin states united to conserve an extra 3 million acre-feet of water by 2026, aiming to stabilize Lake Powell and Lake Mead while crafting the post-2026 ...