The government official and engineer for whom Lake Mead is named would be "devastated" by water levels at the nation's largest reservoir dropping to historic lows, his great-granddaughter told NBC ...

There are also caves where Native Americans harvested salt to preserve food. Lake Mead is the nation's largest reservoir. It was created by blocking the Colorado River with the Hoover Dam ...

Lake Mead is reservoir in Nevada and Arizona formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, and is the largest reservoir in the U.S. in terms of water capacity. It was first flooded in 1935 when ...

Its epitaph might read: Here lay the waters of Lake Mead. The largest U.S. reservoir has shrunken to a record low amid a punishing drought and the demands of 40 million people in seven states who ...

The nation’s largest reservoir is drying up. The last time Lake Mead was this low was in 1937, when it was still being filled after construction of the Hoover Dam, NASA noted in releasing new ...

New satellite images of the reservoir, a critical source of water for 25 million people, reveal dangerously low water levels. By Winston Choi-Schagrin In 2000, Lake Mead was full of deep, midnight ...