Topic: Lake Mead

Cover Story Global water crisis: too little, too much, or lack of a plan?

The global water crisis – caused by drought, flood, and climate change – is less about supply than it is about recognizing water's true value, using it efficiently, and planning for a different future, say experts.

Hoover's dam folly: Why Keynesian New Deal policies failed

Politicians cannot calculate the economic profits and losses of government interventions.

Will drilling more wells in California help or hurt?

A $40 million federal stimulus project to drill up to 50 new wells in California moves forward despite drying aquifers and community complaints.

California's groundwater shrinking because of agricultural use

In California, NASA satellites show that groundwater has diminished because of agressive agricultural irrigation.

Water-use saga: The return of Glen Canyon

After a beautiful landscape reemerged, a new plan for Lake Powell water usage has taken shape.

India's vanishing groundwater

Too many 'straws' sucking water out of the Colorado River

How climate change may be threatening national parks

Thriving forest pests and melting glaciers may make parks a warning system for climate change effects.

Wetland vies for Colorado River’s water

Conservation land in Mexico and a desalting plant in Arizona are at the center of a debate over the river.

California heads for a third dry year in a row

In arid West, a foreign legion of beetles takes on a thirsty invader

Scientists say the beetles released on Southwest riverbanks could tame the water-sucking tamarisk trees.

An artificial flood does good in the Grand Canyon

Researchers hope controlled high flows from Glen Canyon Dam will help restore natural habitat.

Is water becoming ‘the new oil’?

Population, pollution, and climate put the squeeze on potable supplies – and private companies smell a profit. Others ask: Should water be a human right?

Lakes Mead and Powell could run dry by 2021

It's a 50 percent possibility, a new Scripps study finds, which would squeeze water supplies in Arizona, California, Nevada, and New Mexico.