Water managers aren’t in for the exceptional year they had hoped for, with snowpack across the West underperforming in the latest federal update, released Wednesday. In the Upper Colorado River Basin, ...

Lake Mead's water levels are 17 feet higher than they were when the reservoir battled critically low levels in the fall of 2022, fueling hope that the incoming water year will further help the ...

Lake Mead, the source of almost 90 percent of Southern ... which was about 1,040 feet in July 2022. Forecasts that go out further in the future allow for a larger margin of error, and climate ...

Concerns are mounting about the water supply in the Southwest as snowpack levels in key regions plummet. The snowpack in the Rockies and Sierra Nevada, which feed vital reservoirs like Lake Mead and ...

And water managers are bracing for further potential cuts if dry ... going forward. The Lower Basin has proposed that triggers for a shortage should be based on more than just Lake Mead ...

The surface level of Lake Mead nears the turbine intake level. Why is Lake Mead going down? It is being deliberately drained. The statistics are clear. When you let out more water than is coming ...