Emergency releases seek to boost Lake Powell, but warnings have been issues over the moves' potential impacts.

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — More than 215 billion gallons of water will be released downstream to Lake Powell, but Lake Mead will take big hit under a plan announced Friday by the federal government. The U.S.

Titus Crawford spent four days calling Lake Powell boaters this spring. After a record low snowpack and off-the-charts March ...

The state of spring runoff is grim for the Colorado River ...

The latest forecasts come after water managers announced emergency action to prop up the reservoir's dwindling levels.

To keep Lake Powell from falling to dangerously low levels, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will release extra water into the lake from reservoirs upstream and slash releases to Lake Mead downstream ...

With a historic drought hitting the Colorado River basin, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is making preparations to slow releases from the river’s largest reservoir while increasing withdrawals from an ...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — On Friday, the Department of the Interior announced an emergency plan for Colorado River drought management that could send levels at Lake Mead spiraling downwards. Interior ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Canyons in eastern Utah will churn this spring with huge volumes of water — as much as 50,000 toilets flushing constantly at the same time — in a desperate attempt to ...