The massive lake acts like a savings bank for water users, but the account balance is low enough to make officials from across the West nervous Coloradans might know of Lake Powell from sun-filled ...

Over the last three weeks, Lake Mead’s water level has risen 4.6 feet thanks mainly to extra water being released from Lake Powell beginning on April 24, KTLA sister station KLAS reports. On the ...

LAKE POWELL, Ariz. — What's being classified as an Exceptional Drought has hit the Western United States. Extreme summer heat is threatening the power grid and water supply as well as Lake Powell, the ...

Lake Powell is in emergency mode. Record drought this year has accelerated the decline in water levels at the massive reservoir behind Glen Canyon Dam, and officials are taking unprecedented steps to ...

Lake Powell has seen its water levels creep back upwards since this time last year thanks to the above-average snowmelt from the Rocky Mountains over the spring and summer. The differing shorelines of ...

Tracking every move of the Colorado River’s biggest reservoirs has become a routine for water managers across the West. As runoff season comes to a close, the latest hopeful sign comes from Lake ...

This article is part of a special issue on the future of Lake Powell, looking at the reservoir as overallocation and severe drought dry the Colorado River. Read more about how life is returning to the ...

Lake Powell, the second-largest reservoir on the Colorado River, is about to hit the lowest water level since it was filled in 1963, the Bureau of Reclamation said on Wednesday. Water levels have been ...

Memorial Day boaters captured the scene on video as a massive rockfall crashed into the waters of Lake Powell. The dramatic rockslide happened on the Utah side of the lake – the second largest ...

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