Lake Mead

Experts warn that climate change has rendered old assumptions outdated about what the Colorado River can provide, leaving painful water cuts as the only way forward.

The drama engulfing the seven states in the Colorado River Basin could take another, more perilous turn in a few weeks.   Water experts are warning...

This year, the first-ever Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan is set to launch, and water officials expect 2020 to bring unprecedented changes to the way the river is run, including cutbacks in water use by some states.

Time is ticking for states that share the shrinking Colorado River to negotiate a new set of governing rules. One major sticking point, which...

Two thick, orange, bound books sit on a library table at Colorado State University. “This is the original compilation,” said Patty Rettig, a water resources...

This page features images and footage shot with a GoPro camera during a pilot-only Lighthawk flight above Lake Mead and Hoover Dam, along the...

The long-term drying of the American Southwest poses a gathering and measurable threat to hydropower generation in the Colorado River basin. Should Lake Mead, the...

Under the searing desert sun, Max Wilson watched water flow through a canal in north Phoenix. This unassuming strip of blue next to a...

Where groundwater gives way to warm springs, a fight continues over building a new desert town outside Las Vegas.

Lakes Mead and Powell, the basin’s two largest reservoirs, are approaching critical levels in which hydropower from their dams (Hoover and Glen Canyon, respectively) would be severely curtailed or altogether cease.