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A report shows that both Mead and Powell have "reached alarmingly low levels, holding just one-third of their usual capacity.
Huge Lake Mead rests primarily in Nevada, and Lake Powell lies along the Utah-Arizona border. Aman said that "in historical terms, current water levels at Lake Powell and Lake Mead remain very low.
Tens of millions of people rely on water from the nation's largest reservoir, which is part of the Colorado River Basin.
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.
Learn more about the volcanic ash researchers found in the sediment around Lake Mead’s now exposed shoreline, and how it ...
New data shows that water levels in major reservoirs including Lakes Mead and Powell are well below average for this time of ...
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 ...
The water levels for Lake Mead are projected to reach slightly over 1,065 feet by January 2024, according to the Bureau of Reclamation, in large part due to an extremely wet winter that eased the ...
Water levels in Lake Erie rise as the temperatures go up in the summer months. The levels in June were above the long-term ...
The worst-case forecast has Lake Powell falling to low enough levels by the end of next year to halt electricity production ...