At the beginning of this year, Lake Mead's water level was at 1,068.18 feet. With a steady increase through January and February, it reached a peak of 1,076 feet. However, since then it has ...

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, the source of almost 90 percent of Southern Nevada’s water, is expected to near 2022’s historic low by the ... 4 feet higher than the lowest level seen since it was first filled ...

As Lake Mead’s water level continues to fall amid the worsening ... of its highest-level intake straw for the first time in its history. “It’s the worst it’s ever been,” said Colby ...

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

An enormous water reservoir — likely the largest aquifer of its kind in on Earth — sits inside the volcanic rocks of the Oregon Cascades, scientists have revealed.

Scientists studying the volcanic landscape of the Cascade Range found that an aquifer has nearly three times as much water as ...

He added, "But, as the level in Lake Mead dropped in recent years, that created a plausible fear of hitting 'dead pool,' when no water would be released from Hoover Dam." As a result, California ...