— Most of the total water losses occurred in the drier Lower Colorado River basin. It lost 20.7 million acre-feet of ...

"We're kind of on a knife's edge between being OK and being in very scary, catastrophic situations," one nonprofit group told ...

Declining water levels due to climate change and 20 years of ongoing drought have reshaped the park’s shorelines. As Lake ...

Lake Mead and Lake Powell. Despite this, Famiglietti noted that in large portions of the Colorado River Basin, groundwater pumping remains unregulated and unmanaged. “The steady decline of water ...

Q. How would an 18% cut in Lower Basin water use help the situation? A. I have calculated that if Lake Powell had released only 8.23 million acre-feet a year to Lake Mead since 2000, Mead would be ...

The data, released May 20, show that drought conditions across Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Wyoming have worsened ...

Lake Mead’s infamous bathtub ring is expected to get bigger this summer as low snowpack levels in the Rocky Mountains choke ...

Night - Mostly cloudy with a 52% chance of precipitation. Winds ENE at 4 to 6 mph (6.4 to 9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 49 °F (9.4 °C). Mostly cloudy with a high of 68 °F (20 °C) and a ...

Night - Clear. Winds variable. The overnight low will be 48 °F (8.9 °C). Mostly sunny with a high of 88 °F (31.1 °C). Winds variable at 3 to 6 mph (4.8 to 9.7 kph). Partly cloudy today with a ...

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