Filling the lake becomes harder due to the smaller rain and snow totals. “Fredonyer Peak up there is almost 8,000 ... Paul ...

The Tulare Lake in California’s San Joaquin Valley began to dry up in the late 1850s — not through some fluke, but through deliberate action taken to reshape the land at the expense of the ...

Lake Shasta rose 12 feet in November but has since leveled off after several weeks of dry weather in California.

CORCORAN, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 14: An aerial view of structures surrounded ... Once the largest body of freshwater west of the ...

As of Monday, the elevation at Shasta Dam was at 1,003 feet, 18 feet higher than where it stood in mid-November before the ...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake and California’s Salton Sea and ... the lake bed from a nearby village where he grew up. Indeed, the lake has dried and recovered, most recently in the mid-1990s.

the lake — and its tourists — has been drying up, and the lakebed has become increasingly exposed. Imperial Valley farmers in Southern California use more Colorado River water than anyone.

Water diversions cause streams to prematurely dry up progressively earlier in the year ... Image is available for media use. Clear Lake hitch. Richard Macedo / California Department of Fish and Game.

Since last month’s atmospheric river that drenched the North State, the water level in Lake Shasta — California's largest manmade reservoir — has shot up nearly 20 feet. And after a few dry ...