Lake Mead and Lake Powell could be in for another record year for low water levels as a snow drought persists throughout the Western U.S. With minimal snowfall in the last two months, the Colorado ...

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More than 40 million people rely on the river for water, and it supplies 90% of the water used in Southern Nevada. The rest comes from groundwater. The atmospheric storm hit the Sierra Nevada range ...

That boost, spread out over ... Lake Mead: Las Vegas' primary water supply stood at 8,920,500 acre-feet (29%) on Monday, well below its full capacity of 31,047,000 acre-feet. That's below last ...

This river relies heavily on the snowpack from the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains, currently at 75% of the 30-year average. Lake Mead's water level stands ... and over 100 flights have ...

As the temperatures continue to decline in Erie, so do the water levels in Lake Erie as predicted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In December, the water levels in Lake Erie reached a high ...

Water levels on Lake Superior and Lake Michigan-Huron continue to be below the seasonal long-term average, and below last year's level. That's according to the International Lake Superior Board of ...

A gate at Longhorn Dam malfunctioned and remained open, causing Lady Bird Lake water levels to drop, Austin Water reported Tuesday afternoon. Austin Water said one of the nine gates at Longhorn ...