Lake Mead is named for the man who oversaw the construction of the Hoover Dam and was a trailblazing pioneer of water ...

But the United States has built a dam where gravity does not work. At the Hoover Dam built on the Colorado River, if anything is thrown upwards, it keeps floating up after hitting the dam’s wall.

Amid the woozy desert haze springs an incongruous streak of blue. Lake Mead is the most mirage-like thing I’ve ever seen that ...

Sitting about 35 miles southeast of Las Vegas, the Hoover Dam spans the Colorado River and the Black Canyon (which separates Nevada and Arizona). The immense concrete structure – which confines ...

The story of the Hoover Dam began with the need to tame the Colorado River. Early in the 20th century, devastating floods plagued the region, prompting discussions about water management.

but afterwards officially designated the Hoover Dam, across the Colorado River in Black Canyon, which forms the boundary between the States of Arizona and Nevada, at a point about twenty-five ...

Two years ago, when the feds released a draft plan to limp the Colorado River through 2026 ... much during an elaborate news conference at Hoover Dam. But people took them seriously.

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

If water levels seemed lower to visitors last month on Lake Havasu, they weren’t wrong. But federal officials say more water ...

The 1.5 million acre Lake Mead National Recreation Area covers “mountains, canyons, valleys and two vast lakes,” the National ...