Lakes Mead and Powell could run dry by 2021
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It's a 50 percent possibility, a new Scripps study finds, which would squeeze water supplies in Arizona, California, Nevada, and New Mexico.
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Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply power plants with the awesome amounts of cooling water they need to operate.
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By The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 18--The U.S. energy secretary made an alarming statement earlier this month. Secretary Samuel Bodman said at a congressional hearing that the plan to clean up a radioactive uranium dump that threatens the Colorado River may be delayed by 16 years.
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Mill Hollow enthusiasts will not find a spot at a fishing hole or camping site at the north-central Utah reservoir this Memorial Day weekend.  Not only that, they won't find this popular place available for fishing and camping for the next two years.
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By PHIL MULKINS Action Line  Dear Action Line:   What's going on at the Zink Lake low-water dam? There was some sort of temporary dam out there that is now gone. They appeared to be working on the dam, and the river has been dry for a week. -- J.W., Tulsa.
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By Mike Dunbar, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  May 27--Deteriorating levees. Dying fish in a dying delta. Dismantling  dams or building new ones. Climate change. Peripheral canal. Drought. Welcome  to Randy Fiorini's world.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Jun. 12--A committee voted Monday to put efforts to study enlargement of Lake Pueblo on hold until next year and to spend the next 60 days reviewing how the decision will affect water storage agreements negotiated over the last four years.
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California's major urban areas and farmers should brace for cuts in water supplies following a federal judge's ruling that limits how much water may be pumped from the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta, water officials from around the state said on Wednesday.
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By Brian Duggan; Henry Brean  By BRIAN DUGGAN   and HENRY BREAN   REVIEW-JOURNAL   WASHINGTON - Climate change is going to bring big changes to the West, including the dire possibility that Lake Mead could run dry in 10 years, a panel of experts warned senators.
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Climate change and a growing demand for water could drain two of the nation's largest manmade reservoirs within 13 years, depriving several Southwestern states of key water sources, scientists warn.
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LOS ANGELES, June 29 -- Barring a surprise arrival of the kind of gully washers Texas is getting these days, Los Angeles's driest year in 130 years of recordkeeping will go into the books this weekend.
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By Rob Pavey< Staff Writer  Unless the skies get very wet, very fast and for an extended period of time, 2006 is shaping up to be as dry as last year was wet.
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LAKE MEAD, Nevada  - Two wooden piers that once extended into Lake Mead, Nevada, now loom over a desert landscape, monuments to the insatiable need for water in nearby Las Vegas and other parts.
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RUSSELL SPRINGS, Ky. - Engineers may have to further lower a lake if some repairs to a leaky dam don't work, which could cause a crunch at lakeside power plants and threaten drinking water supplies, officials said Wednesday.
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World Heritage sites such as Australia's   Great Barrier Reef or Kathmandu in Nepal could be taken off the   tourism map by 2020 due to the effects of climate change and   too many visitors, a think tank said on Friday.
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By Sean Rose, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  May 27--A dam is in need of repair and there's less water for boating, but for Kentucky geologists, a 40-foot drop in the water level at Lake Cumberland is just fine.
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With an epic drought gripping the region, Georgia lawmakers announced plans Thursday for a network of state reservoirs, while the governors of Alabama and Florida warned that Georgia's consumption threatens their downstream states.