As Lake Powell and Lake Mead near critical elevations, federal planners face narrowing operational options that could reshape ...

Hydropower output at Hoover Dam is down by about half since 2000. Lakes Mead and Powell are approaching critical thresholds below which hydropower generation would be severely curtailed or cease.

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — September 11, 1936 was an electrifying date for Southern Nevada. On this day Hoover Dam began generating power to the area. Lake Mead began filling with water in February of 1935, ...

In late May, as the outside temperature approached 100 degrees, Arizona’s top water policy officials gathered in an air-conditioned Phoenix conference room. Their purpose that day was to decide ...