Dry lake beds, also known as playas, are flat, barren areas that can sometimes flood after rainfall and transform into a temporary lake. While these empty stretches of desert may seem boring, dry ...

Brackish water soaks the ground at Lower Owens River after heavy snow in 2023 sent runoff flowing from the Sierra Nevada into the Owens Valley. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) The dry bed of Owens ...

An ambitious plan to bring power from California's Owens Valley to Los Angeles has run into problems. The LA Department of Water and Power had hoped to put solar panel platforms on an 80-acre site in ...

A dry lake bed along the edge of the Manasquan Reservoir points to how months of sunny skies and dry weather have drained the drinking water supply for much of southern Monmouth County. It also serves ...

The expense would come from tamping down the dust from the dried lake bed, which contains heavy metals, PFAS and other chemicals. Utah could find itself on the hook for billions of dollars in ...