For excursions out of town, the Grand Canyon, Red Rock Canyon, Lake Mead and the Valley of Fire will satisfy your nature-loving soul.

BBC: Discover life in the Nevada desert

Evacuations remained in effect for the Cottonwood campground and two youth probation camps along Lake Hughes Canyon Road.

NPR: Southern Calif Wildfire Explodes In Size Overnight

Richard Ingebretsen, president of the Glen Canyon Institute in Salt Lake City, says that his group pushed Mr Brower into campaigning for what is, he believes, the largest environment-restoration project America has yet seen.

ECONOMIST: Water in the West (1)

These eye-in-the-sky cell towers hover between 70, 000 and 100, 000-feet and provide coverage for a 200-mile radius on Earth- but the darn things only stay aloft for 24 to 48 hours before freefalling to the ground (or tree, or lake, or Grand Canyon).

ENGADGET: Cash-in on your geocaching skillz

Read a lake, a seascape or canyon.

FORBES: Cultivate Copiousness

Last year 2.5 million people visited Lake Powell and the adjoining Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

And like many a fellow environmentalist, she is concerned that urban sprawl is now encroaching on surrounding conservation areas like Lake Mead, Spring Mountain and Red Rock Canyon.

BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Vegas heading for 'dry future'

With a planned hydropower capacity of 5.25 gigawatts and a flooded canyon twice as voluminous as the country's largest lake, it is the centrepiece of a plan to increase the country's electricity supply fivefold by 2015.

ECONOMIST: Egypt and Ethiopia quarrel over water

Daniel Kraker of member station KNAU takes us to the shores of Lake Powell, the gigantic reservoir behind the Glen Canyon Dam.

NPR: Struggling over Water: A Series Overview

Not A Bathtub Several organizations, led by the Sierra Club, are pushing an astonishingly goofy idea: Drain Lake Powell (in Utah and Arizona) and decommission the Glen Canyon Dam.

FORBES: Fact and Comment