Hoover Dam will soon hold the smallest amount of water since it was filled in the 1930s. The next few years may show how much water use needs to decrease to rebalance the river and reduce the risk ...

BOULDER CITY, Nev. – Hoover Dam towers more than 700 feet above Black Canyon on the Arizona-Nevada state line, holding back the waters of the Colorado River. On top of the dam, where visitors ...

Hoover Dam has helped store Colorado River water since 1935, ... The warm, dry conditions over the past two years have baked the watershed’s soils to such an extent, ...

As of 11 p.m. PDT Wednesday the lake surface fell to 1,071.56 feet above sea level, dipping below the previous record low set on July 1, 2016.

Clayton Sellers’voice echoes off the sheer rock walls that rise from his vantage point along the Colorado River in Black Canyon, just downstream from the base of Hoover Dam. “[The dam] was ...

Low water levels due to drought are seen in the Hoover Dam reservoir of Lake Mead near Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. June 9, 2021. Picture taken June 9, 2021.

HOOVER DAM, Ariz.--To get a sense of what seven years of drought in the Colorado River basin looks like, all you have to do is gaze out at Lake Mead from the top of the dam here and view the 108 ...

Hoover Dam is going dry: Water shortage declared for the first time ever in the USA. WRITTEN BY: Timothy James 2. We have all heard of the famous “bathtub ring” around Lake Mead (AZ, MN) and many have ...

Reclamation, which tamed rivers, marks a dry 120th birthday. By Jennifer Yachnin | 06/17/2022 01:36 PM EDT . ... workers put the finishing touches on the Hoover Dam on Aug. 12, 1931.

To build Hoover Dam in the 1930s, an army of Depression-era daredevils poured enough concrete to form a two-lane road from Seattle to Miami. The dam powered Los Angeles and birthed modern Las Vegas.