Lake Mead declined to its lowest level since Hoover Dam's construction in the 1930s. It's a new milestone for the water-starved Colorado River.

HOOVER DAM — The Colorado River just got a boost that’s likely to prevent its depleted reservoirs from bottoming out, at least for the next several years. Representatives of seven Western ...

Lightning strikes over a very low Lake Mead near Hoover Dam at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Arizona, July 28, 2014. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a plan to cut back on the ...

Farmers, environmentalists and small-town business owners gathered at the Hoover Dam on Thursday to call for a moratorium on pipelines and dams along the Colorado River that they said jeopardizes ...

To help stave off another round of mandatory cutbacks, water leaders for Arizona Nevada and California are preparing to sign an agreement that would voluntarily reduce Colorado River water to the ...

The water intakes of Hoover Dam on Lake Mead, ... It’s the 100th anniversary of the Colorado River Compact, ... which didn’t sign the compact until 1944.

Hoover Dam At the Hoover Dam built on the Colorado River, if anything is thrown upwards, it keeps floating up after hitting the dam’s wall. One could say that gravity here is negligible.

A buoy lies on a dried mud flat at a closed marina at drought-stricken Lake Mead on July 12 near Las Vegas. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times ...

Glen Canyon Dam above the Colorado River. And even if it takes 50 to 100 years for the mud to become a serious problem, Dr. Schmidt thinks Glen Canyon Dam eventually will have to be re-engineered ...

Hoover Dam was called one of the greatest engineering works in history. 5,000 working men and their families came to live in the Nevada desert. These are men whi built the dam.