Colorado snowpack, after a dry January, is near normal in north — and dismal in some places
A dry January across Colorado and the rest of the Rocky Mountain West has created a dichotomy of water haves and have-nots.
Lake Mead Water Level Update as Las Vegas Goes 221 Days Without Rain
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 ...
Lake Mead: Colorado Snowpack Adds to Water Woes
Latest estimates place the Upper Colorado River Basin snowpack at just 83 percent of the historic median for this time of ...
One of the world’s weirdest cruises is in the heart of a desert
Amid the woozy desert haze springs an incongruous streak of blue. Lake Mead is the most mirage-like thing I’ve ever seen that ...
Is Lake Mead in peril? Snowpack declines in the West, worrying some
Water managers aren’t in for the exceptional year they had hoped for, with snowpack across the West underperforming in the ...
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Upper Colorado Basin Snowpack falls behind: Your February Water Status Check
As of early February, the snow storage for our water system in the Southwest is at 76% of the 30 year average. Meanwhile, Tier 3 Extreme Drought persists in Southern Nevada.
Federal money will help connect CAP, SRP canals, stretching water supplies for cities
Central Arizona is preparing for more intense droughts and floods through major water projects with federal support.
'Geologic gift': One of world's largest aquifers is buried below Oregon's Cascade Range
Below Mount Jefferson and McKenzie Pass is a massive storehouse of water three times the size of Lake Mead, say Oregon ...
‘New ground’: Trump funding pause may halt Colorado River projects, energy rebates
In the later half of the Biden administration, officials touted the historic investments in the Colorado River as the main ...
Lake Powell: Water Flows To Drop 24% Below Normal Say Forecasters
A rocky start to the year has put water flows through America's second-largest reservoir on track to decline, unless ...
Lake Tahoe's water levels above average, but Sierra snowpack lags behind
Despite the lackluster month, water storage at Lake Tahoe remains well ahead of capacity due to the strength of last year's ...
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Forecasters predict low flows into Colorado River this winter, spring
The result is that the federal Colorado Basin River Forecast Center is now predicting that April through July flows into Powell will be only 76% of normal. That's down from 81% at the beginning of ...