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 ...

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, ...

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

Here is a late-breaking flash from a new study released last week at the University of Arizona: Westerners use too much water.

Desalination, conservation, recycling: Vice President Kamala Harris travels to drying Lake Mead to press for climate and drought relief.

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

The water is gone, and the secrets of Lake Mead are finally visible. In this episode, we explore the bone-dry remains of what was once a massive reservoir. From sunbaked mud to strange objects ...

A boater gets an up-close view of the “bathtub ring” on Lake Mead — evidence of its low water level — while touring Hoover Dam. A study from Arizona State University has found that an ...

Environment Nation Nation & World Travel A Lake Mead’s worth of water has vanished from the ground. Could Las Vegas suffer? June 15, 2025 at 11:55 am By Alan Halaly ...

Could Las Vegas suffer? Water from the Colorado River diverted through the Central Arizona Project fills an irrigation canal, Aug. 18, 2022, in Maricopa, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York, File) ...