Researchers discovered the aquifer to be nearly three times the capacity of Lake Mead, a reservoir that covers parts of ...

Researchers discovered the aquifer to be nearly three times the capacity of Lake Mead, a reservoir that covers parts of Nevada and Arizona. It also supplied water to those two states and California.

Water managers aren’t in for the exceptional year they had hoped for, with snowpack across the West underperforming in the latest federal update, released Wednesday. In the Upper Colorado River Basin, ...

A hidden reservoir of groundwater more than twice the size of Lake Mead is buried inside the Oregon Cascades, a new study reports. Scientists found that the underground aquifer holds at least 19.4 ...

The latest Bureau of Reclamation projections for Lake Mead, released in February, point to about a one-in-three chance that by 2026 the reservoir will drop below 1,020 feet, a number that Fleck ...

But is there still a whole lot of water to go boating? Absolutely.” At maximum capacity, Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United States by volume. Even now, at less than 27 percent of ...

Below Mount Jefferson and McKenzie Pass is a massive storehouse of water three times the size of Lake Mead, say Oregon researchers.

This recreation area provides scenic vistas of Lake Mead and Lake Mohave with more than 700 miles of shoreline and a beautiful reservoir for boaters, swimmers, and anglers to explore. The surrounding ...

A view of Lake Mead - in wetter times, the water came all the way up to the rocks A once-in-a-lifetime drought in the western part of the US is turning up dead bodies - but that's the least of ...

While the Oregon Cascades are buried beneath heavy snow and glaciers this time of year, new research is showing something big ...

On the way back to the dock, while toweling off, it was hard not to notice Lake Mead’s depletion. A potent combination of seemingly endless drought and human activity has lowered the reservoir ...