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The infection is caused by Naegleria fowleri, also known as brain-eating amoeba, which is common in warm bodies of freshwater such as lakes, rivers and hot springs

Authorities in the US have urged people to be cautious but not panicked

Brain-eating amoeba killed boy after swim in Lake Mead, officials say

A boy has died of a brain-eating amoeba infection after swimming in Lake Mead this month, authorities in Nevada said.

Water levels continue to fall in Lake Mead due to worsening drought in the western United States and overuse of the Colorado River

A single irrigation district in California, along the Mexican border, takes more water from the Colorado River than all of Arizona and Nevada. It's under pressure to use less.

LAS VEGAS — Boats and bodies aren’t the only things revealing secrets at Lake Mead.

A reckoning has come for cities and farms in the desert Southwest that were built to rely on the Colorado River.

It's human nature to mark big-number anniversaries, but there's a centennial looming just ahead that Californians — and other Westerners — might not want to celebrate.

A boating and fishing paradise on the Utah-Wyoming line is beginning to feel the effects of the two-decade megadrought gripping the southwestern U.S. Until now, Flaming Gorge Reservoir hasn't seen anything like the low water that has drastically shrunk Lake Mead near Las Vegas and Lake Powell in Arizona and…

Since 2000, flows on the Colorado River have declined 20% and water levels at Lake Powell and Lake Mead have dropped to less than 30% of their combined storage