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 ...

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

The 1.5 million acre Lake Mead National Recreation Area covers “mountains, canyons, valleys and two vast lakes,” the National ...

Water managers aren’t in for the exceptional year they had hoped for, with snowpack across the West underperforming in the ...

Researchers have discovered a massive water reservoir beneath the Cascade Mountain Range. It’s estimated to be three times the volume of the largest reservoir in the United States.

Researchers from the University of Oregon, Oregon State University, and the U.S. Forest Service have made a groundbreaking discovery beneath the Cascade Mountain Range—a water reservoir estimated to ...

Amid the woozy desert haze springs an incongruous streak of blue. Lake Mead is the most mirage-like thing I’ve ever seen that ...

A high-flying drone shot over Lake Mead, a massive reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, that lies on the border of Arizona and Nevada, just east of Las Vegas. A high-flying drone ...

Massive water reservoir found in Oregon Cascades Aquifer holds 81 cubic kilometers of water Study reveals potential volcanic hazards and water use impact ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Projections released on Wednesday for Lake Mead are far more optimistic than a year ago, showing the lake level rising almost 14 feet higher than models suggested as 2024 began. The ...

MOHAVE VALLEY — Irrigation and Drainage District board members will host discussion Tuesday on the Alternatives Report from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on post-2026 operational guidelines and ...