The man who oversaw the construction of what many consider North America’s most impressive feat of civil engineering is considered a trailblazing pioneer of water management. From 1924 to 1936, Elwood ...

When you think of Lake Mead, along the Arizona ... park pass online or at the entrance before heading to the trailhead. If you've stopped at Hoover Dam, continue south on Highway 93, over the ...

Las Vegas has now gone 212 days without rain, and all of Clark County is under either extreme or exceptional drought, but water levels at Lake Mead keep rising. Newsweek reached out to the National ...

Latest estimates place the Upper Colorado River Basin snowpack at just 83 percent of the historic median for this time of year.

Learn more about the snow drought impacting the western U.S. and what that means for vital water sources.

As Lake Mead’s water level continues to fall amid ... another 160 feet to its “dead pool,” the point at which Hoover Dam would be unable to release water downstream. John Fleck, a water ...

the Hoover Dam spans the Colorado River and the Black Canyon (which separates Nevada and Arizona). The immense concrete structure – which confines Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United ...