There is a sweet little cottage for rent next door to my brother’s house, and for the past two weeks I’ve watched as renters have arrived with their coolers and rafts and their happy lake dreams.

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Utah’s resource managers have presented a plan that ensures water that makes it to the Great Salt Lake stays in the lake. Lawmakers in 2023 passed legislation taming what they called the “wild west” ...

San Joaquin Valley tribal and community leaders want to restore part of Tulare Lake. Once the largest body of freshwater west of the Mississippi, the lake was drained more than a century ago for ...

Just a year or two ago, one could have morbidly called it “Crater Lake.” Lake Las Vegas, the water-filled, 3,592-acre development in northeastern Henderson, hit the bottom of the Great Recession hard, ...

Many of the big saline lakes of the Americas are on the brink of collapse due to climate change and water diversions. Mono lake’s survival is due to the scientists, activists, and locals who have ...

After catastrophic flooding swept through parts of the Hill Country in early July, a beloved drought-stricken Texas lake rose fast, and with it, the doors reopened for businesses that had nearly dried ...