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 ...

A moisture-laden atmospheric river is approaching the West Coast, but Lake Mead and Lake Powell might have to wait a little longer before they benefit from the winter storm. After years of drought, ...

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 ...

PHOENIX - Water levels on Lake Powell are rising thanks to the heavy snowpack in the Colorado Rockies, and currently, water levels are at 3,525 feet – up three feet compared to last year. All that ...

Spring represents a fresh start for plants, animals, alarm clocks — and Lake Powell. Lake Powell’s levels have fallen throughout the winter, but as the weather warms, the snowpack that has accumulated ...

Since Glen Canyon Dam's completion in the 1960s, Utahns have revered Lake Powell for a lot of reasons: It's a houseboating paradise, with many families planning multigenerational trips on the water ...

Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the nation's two largest reservoirs, are following patterns very similar to 2021, the year the water shortage was declared by the federal government.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. With last winter’s snowpack largely gone, ...

LAKE MEAD, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - In a surprising change from just a few months ago, the federal government is now looking to loosen the Colorado water restrictions for Arizona for next year. Both Lake ...

Robyn White is a Newsweek Nature Reporter based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on wildlife, science and the environment. Robyn joined Newsweek in 2022 having previously worked at environmental ...

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