After years of drought, some argue that the country's second-largest reservoir should be drained, restoring a landscape of ...

A progressive civil servant who led the Bureau of Reclamation under President Clinton is now urging the incoming Trump ...

Dan Beard, who served as Reclamation commissioner from 1993 to 1995, asserted his former agency should be among the first ...

(FOX5) - There is new uncertainty for the future of water levels in Lake Mead. Upstream at the Glen Canyon Dam, key underwater tubes have been deemed unreliable. According to a newly released memo ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A yearlong project to reline a set of four secondary pipes inside Glen Canyon Dam is currently underway, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation revealed on Tuesday. The “river ...

The iconic reservoir faces the risk of becoming a mud lake as 100 million tons of sediment accumulate each year.

On a six-day expedition through Cataract Canyon, I learned what's at stake for the Colorado River — and the people who are ...

If nothing is done regarding the sediment flowing into Lake Powell, it will take approximately 750 years to be considered a ...

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The Colorado River is managed like a joint bank account — seven states have equal shares of two basins, and not a single drop ...

In 1963, the Glen Canyon Dam was built. It created Lake Powell Reservoir, which straddles Utah and Arizona, to ensure a water supply for the lower Colorado River basin states and Mexico. Over the past ...