The Bureau of Reclamation will add water to the nation's second-largest reservoir to help protect Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona.

Difficult decisions for the Colorado River are starting to be made. In what will be a defining year for the struggling ...

The scanty snowpack accumulating this winter in the Colorado River headwaters is threatening Glen Canyon Dam’s hydropower production and complicating an already fraught balancing act for the Southwest ...

Runoff into the Colorado is at near record-low levels, and a new report calls out the need for emergency action.

Canyons in eastern Utah will churn this spring with huge volumes of water — as much as 50,000 toilets flushing constantly at ...

Nevada’s access to water from the Colorado River depends on releases through Glen Canyon Dam, which impounds the river to form Lake Powell. The persistent drought in the southwest United States, ...

The federal government, acting under a 2019 drought agreement, will release between 660,000 acre-feet and 1 million acre-feet ...

The Rundown And lastly, a bill introduced in the House would authorize a federal water-bill assistance program. “Our families can’t live without access to water. We have a federal program for ...

Glen Canyon Dam, which impounds the Colorado River to form Lake Powell, is a single point of failure that poses an unacceptable risk to the functioning of the entire river system. Modifying the dam to ...

In the ongoing saga of the Colorado River water shortage, your March 1 article, “Dam’s failure foreseen,” left out important history. In the early 1960s, according to a Sierra Club book, ““The Place ...

The Glen Canyon Dam promised water and power — but the river had other plans. The Glen Canyon Dam once symbolized American engineering might. But the Colorado River it was built to tame is shrinking.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The scanty snowpack accumulating this winter in the Colorado River headwaters is threatening Glen Canyon Dam’s hydropower ...