FRESNOLAND: Big rivers kept in check as residents grappled with havoc from streams, springs and snowmelt in Madera and Fresno counties

Fresnoland

Current Conditions

March 18, 2023

By Gregory Weaver, Fresnoland In Fresno and Madera counties, it was smaller streams and snowmelt that caused most of the...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Low Lake Mead water level tough on small town

Courthouse News Service

Colorado River

March 17, 2023

Twenty-three years of drought have dried up tourist dollars for Overton, Nevada. But some residents think the federal government bears...

CAL MATTERS COMMENTARY: Newsom’s Delta decisions are the sort of responsive moves California needs for water crisis

Cal Matters

CommentaryWater project operations

March 17, 2023

The decision to suspend environmental regulations for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta – and then reverse it a few weeks later...

CAL MATTERS COMMENTARY: Waiving California environmental rules for Delta water equates to a civil rights issue

Cal Matters

CommentaryWater project operations

March 17, 2023

Despite reversing course last week, the February decision by Gov. Gavin Newsom and state water officials to bypass environmental rules...

THE CONVERSATION: Is the Western drought finally ending? That depends on where you look

The Conversation

Current Conditions

March 16, 2023

By Dan McEvoy, Desert Research Institute After three years of extreme drought, the Western U.S. is finally getting a break....

CDFW Testing ‘Parentage-Based Tagging’ of Fall-Run Chinook Salmon

Department of Fish and Wildlife

Delta scienceFish and wildlife

March 16, 2023

By the Department of Fish & Wildlife: Under cover of darkness and with a series of cold, late-winter storms building,...

NASA/JPL: Ranking Atmospheric Rivers: New Study Finds World of Potential

NASA/JPL

Hydrology

March 16, 2023

By NASA/JPL Like hurricane categories, a scale for atmospheric river storm severity could help communities around the globe compare and...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Western water wars at high court focus on Navajo Nation

Courthouse News Service

Colorado River

March 16, 2023

Out of the arid American Southwest is a case headed to the Supreme Court dealing with the hottest commodity in...

DELTA STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL: Integrating social sciences in the Delta

Maven

Notebook News and FeaturesPlanning and management

March 16, 2023

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] Integrating the social sciences into environmental science and management in the Delta can contribute to a better understanding of...

STATELINE: Facing Drought, Western States Seek to Deny Groundwater to Foreigners

Stateline

Colorado RiverPolicy and regulation

March 15, 2023

by Matt Vasilogambros, Stateline  Read more Stateline coverage of how communities across the West are grappling with drought that’s worsening because of...

GRIST: How rising temperatures are intensifying California’s atmospheric rivers

Grist

Climate changeHydrology

March 15, 2023

As storms get warmer and wetter, the state’s flood control system is struggling to keep up. By Jake Bittle, Grist...

CAL MATTERS: No California salmon: Fishery to be shut down this year

Cal Matters

Fish and wildlife

March 15, 2023

The salmon industry, worth about half a billion dollars, is devastated. The culprits: Drought and decades of water diversions and...

DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: Making it snow: A brief history and review of the science behind cloud-seeding

Desert Research Institute

Water supply augmentation

March 15, 2023

By the Desert Research Institute: Clouds – those enigmatic formations of condensed water vapor which drift above our heads, forming...

DFW NEWS: CDFW Using Winter Storms to Help Increase Survival of Hatchery Released Chinook Salmon

Department of Fish and Wildlife

Science

March 15, 2023

By CDFW News Anticipating good conditions for the survival of hatchery-produced Chinook salmon throughout the Sacramento River and tributaries, the...

THIS JUST IN … Metropolitan board rescinds emergency conservation mandate imposed on dozens of communities

Metropolitan Water District

Policy and regulation

March 15, 2023

Southern Californians asked to continue using water efficiently to prepare for uncertainty of Colorado River water supplies, by increasing storage...