Nevada sees drought improvement with 22% of state no longer facing dry conditions after Las Vegas records sixth wettest October ...

US state negotiators are battling over how to manage dwindling water resources in the Colorado River Basin, a lifeline for ...

The seven states in the River Basin, including Colorado, have until Nov. 11 to sketch out a high-level agreement for how to ...

Drought-stricken Lake Mead on the Colorado River in August 2022. (File photo by Christopher Clark / U.S. Bureau of Reclamation) After one of the Colorado River’s driest years in decades, Lake Mead and ...

Federal water managers decide shortage levels each year in August, based on projected water levels at Lake Mead and Lake Powell for the start of the following year. Photo by Jeniffer Solis | Nevada ...

With Arizona in the grips of a prolonged drought, scientists are working on a new management plan for Colorado River water. As the state continues its unbridled growth, a growing number of residents ...

An extraordinary drought in the West is drying up the Colorado River and draining the nation's largest reservoirs -- Lake Mead and Lake Powell. And amid the overuse of the river and the aridification ...

After one of the Colorado River’s driest years in decades, Lake Mead and Lake Powell — the largest reservoirs in the country — could see alarming declines in the coming years, the U.S. Bureau of ...

Cut Colorado River water use now, water researchers and other experts urge in a new report, to avoid putting the river system in a very difficult to potentially catastrophic position in a year. The ...

Families flocking to Lake Powell for summer vacations will find closed and less accessible boat ramps in the coming weeks. Water levels continue to drop as “unprecedented drought” plagues the Colorado ...

Reservoirs are 31% full as talks intensify and power risks grow. Lake Mead and Lake Powell are about 31% full, already triggering cutbacks for Arizona and Nevada. Under a dire scenario, Lake Powell ...