Melting snow from California's Sierra Nevada is filling reservoirs. But dry conditions have shrunk the flow of the Colorado ...

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

As the Colorado River shrinks due to drought and climate change, the negotiators must decide who will take less water — and ...

Deep below the surface of the ground in one of the driest parts of the country, there is a looming problem: The water is ...

Lake Norman Charter’s Max Riggenbach (14) and Landon Foshee (25) embrace after their loss to Croatan in the NCHSAA 1A/2A/3A ...

Quagga mussels are a freshwater mollusk that damage reservoirs and lakes. Wildlife resources agencies are working to prevent the spread of the invasive species. Utah requires boaters to go through a ...

The snowpack above Lake Powell, which is the second-largest reservoir ... The states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — primarily disagree over which ...

Dam maintenance and non-native fish reduction efforts led the government to reject an environmentally restorative flood in ...

As the Colorado River’s reservoirs have declined, even larger amounts of groundwater have been drained from aquifers. Using ...

The Colorado River Basin has lost twice as much groundwater since 2003 as water taken out of its reservoirs, according to a ...

A sunken speedboat has resurfaced from Lake Mead, highlighting ongoing water declines and persistent drought warnings for the ...