This part of the Colorado River flows south through Northern Arizona, into Marble Canyon and then the Grand Canyon before dropping into Lake Mead. Lake Mead water level rises, defies projections ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Lake Mead will be one foot higher by the end of the week after the release of water from Glen Canyon into the Colorado River. The “High Flow Experiment” and its ...

In July, Lake Mead’s water level reached an all-time low of 1,040 feet. Lake Powell, the other key reservoir on the Colorado River, also reached historic lows last year.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation opened up the flow down the Colorado River and downstream to Lake Mead on April 24, sending a gush of water at 39,500 cubic feet per second (cfs) and lasting 72 hours.

Lake Mead, seen here on April 3, has plummeted in recent years amid an epic drought. A wet winter is now prompting federal officials to release more water downstream into the reservoir.

Yearly natural water flows into Lake Mead at Lees Ferry, Nevada, since 1930. ... The Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study, published in 2012, ...

After a decade-long drought on the Colorado River, the Lake Mead reservoir reached a historic low level last November and water users in Arizona and Nevada braced for shortages.

Wheeler acknowledged, however, that the paper used a model that assumed a continuation of average river flows since 2000, not a potentially catastrophic scenario such as a series of back-to-back ...

As of Wednesday morning, the surge of water released from the Glen Canyon Dam has reached Lake Mead. Beginning Monday, the Bureau of Reclamation began releasing a large amount of water through Glen… ...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation opened up the flow down the Colorado River and downstream to Lake Mead on April 24, sending a gush of water at 39,500 cubic feet per second (cfs) and lasting 72 hours.