Lake Mead and Lake Powell -- are facing potentially record-low water levels in the coming months due to a snow drought that ...

Lake Mead's water levels could fall 20 feet below the current record in the summer of 2027, new projections show.

An environmental organization is floating a concept that could help the Colorado River system during extremely dry years like ...

The U.S. government has proposed a new water-sharing ​plan for the drought-stricken Colorado River that could cut up to 40% ...

Lake Mead just got told its worst fortune yet, with federal forecasters predicting that over the next two years, the reservoir is likely to drop more than 20 feet below its lowest level on record set ...

Economist Milton Friedman is often credited with noting, "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, ...

The bureau also plans to limit how much water is released from Lake Powell downstream to Lake Mead. It plans to hold back ...

A proposal from Arizona, California and Nevada to shave their take from the Colorado River for the next 30 months is drawing ...

The heat wave in March led to a record collapse in snowpack across much of the American west, threatening already ...

From the Rockies to the Cascades to the Sierra Nevada, mountainsides across the West are sparsely covered by the snow that ...