By Justin Fredrickson, Ag Alert California is facing an indisputable fact: We need, in a big way, to get busy finding water alternatives to the long-indispensable Sierra Nevada snowpack. Yes, we’ve been blessed by recent exceptional snowfall, perhaps a snowy...
Suddenly flush with cash, drought-riddled California has a golden opportunity to update its 20th century water infrastructure and retrofit it for climate change. By Nick Cahill, Courthouse News Service Caught in one of the driest two-year stretches in state history...
From the Department of Water Resources: Water Year 2021 (October 1, 2020 to September 30, 2021) was an extreme year in terms of temperature and precipitation, and it followed a Water Year 2020 that was likewise warm and dry. Water...
By Alastair Bland, Cal Matters Water plays a lead role in the state’s political theater, with Democrats and Republicans polarized, farmers often fighting environmentalists and cities pitted against rural communities. Rivers are overallocated through sloppy water accounting. Groundwater has dwindled...
Reservoirs are often constructed and operated for multiple purposes, such as water supply, flood control, hydropower, recreation, and environmental enhancement....
The California Water Commission has released its White Paper – A State Role in Financing Conveyance to Meet Climate Change Needs: Findings and Conclusions. The White Paper, which was approved by the Commission at its June 16, 2021, meeting, describes the...
