Heavy rain that caused flooding last week in the Four Corners area of Utah, Colorado and New Mexico has had what water experts say is a beneficial side effect: A marked rise in the water level of Lake ...

Heavy rain appears to have helped lift Lake Powell, while Lake Mead continues to hover around record-low levels.

The Colorado River flows into Lake Powell before continuing downstream toward Lake Mead. Lake Mead also reached record low ...

Together the two lakes held 12.3 million acre-feet of water on October 23, according to the Bureau of Reclamation. In October ...

Rachel and its remnants dumped significant amounts of rain across Southern California and parts of the Southwest after ...

Drastically low water levels in Lake Powell have effectively halted most public access to Rainbow Bridge National Monument ...

Two tropical storms in two weeks soaked the Southwest, and the water is finding its way to the Colorado River's two great reservoirs. Lake Powell has risen about three feet since September 15, when it ...

A month of record rain sent Lake Powell up nearly 10 feet and turned the San Juan River into a torrent, though it remains ...

Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in America, 300 miles downstream, is inching even closer to dead pool while a megadrought continues to shrink the Colorado River. The Colorado River system supplies ...

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