The Glen Canyon Dam at Lake Powell in Arizona is set to receive $30.9 million in upgrades as part of President Joe Biden's Investing in America agenda, an initiative designed to modernize water ...

A recent graduate who majored in Southwest Studies and minored in Environmental Studies has put their degree to use by ...

There's a lot of anxiety about climate change shrinking Lake Powell, but it also means whitewater rapids upstream have re-emerged. Thrillseekers can now run them for the first time since the 1960s. At ...

Nevada sees drought improvement with 22% of state no longer facing dry conditions after Las Vegas records sixth wettest October ...

Federal water managers will repair a set of little-used pipes within Glen Canyon Dam after discovering damage earlier this year. The tubes, called river outlet works, have been a focus for Colorado ...

Drought and steady demand along the Colorado River are draining the nation's second-largest reservoir. Land that was once ...

As Lake Powell and other vital water sources in the Colorado River Basin face increasing stress, researchers are calling attention to a simple yet critical legal reform that could help secure the ...

In the 1960s and ’70s, the dam became a flash point in the environmental movement, but few environmentalists at that time expected that the water level of Lake Powell would start to fall, dropping to ...

Stepped-up water conservation and a run of wet weather have raised Lake Powell to its highest level in well over three years. That has happened even though this year’s runoff into the lake will be ...

Sixty years after workers hand painted the lining of four tubes at Glen Canyon Dam, the Bureau of Reclamation is using federal funds for a needed refresh. This time, it’s with the help of robots. The ...

Utah and six other states along the Colorado River are pushing up against a deadline to figure out as a group how to manage ...