More than 90 years after it was created during the Great Depression, Lake Mead provides about 90% of the water supply in Southern Nevada. And while much of the focus is on the lake shrinking, those ...

Tens of millions of people rely on water from the nation's largest reservoir, which is part of the Colorado River Basin.

Lake Mead has dropped about 2 feet since the beginning of June as drought conditions continue to worsen across Nevada.

Lake Mead is DRY - and it’s surreal. In today’s adventure, we walked on land that was once 175 feet underwater, too deep for even scuba divers. Now exposed, it’s eerily quiet, hauntingly beautiful, ...

New data shows that water levels in major reservoirs including Lakes Mead and Powell are well below average for this time of year.

A report shows that both Mead and Powell have "reached alarmingly low levels, holding just one-third of their usual capacity.

Bleak projections for Lake Mead show the nation’s largest reservoir dropping to a new low in less than a year and a half, and plunging 11 feet below that by May 2027.

A red flag warning was issued for Lake Mead and surrounding areas on Monday, with officials cautioning that weather ...

Lake Mead's water levels rose slowly throughout 2023, although the measurements were lower than in the previous two years. Water level measurements began at 1,046.97 feet in January and ended at ...

The water beneath our feet that we use to bathe, drink and water crops is vanishing faster than ever in the Colorado River ...

Trump and Elon Musk-led DOGE have fired a key safety biologist at Lake Mead in Nevada, making America's largest reservoir less safe. DOGE cuts mean work on a brain-eating amoeba is unfinished.