NOAA Fisheries and partners rebuilt floodplain habitat in the heart of redwood country, benefiting salmon, restoring tribal stewardship, and creating...
From UC Merced: Wildfire is reshaping the forests of California’s Sierra Nevada and affecting the water those forests supply to downstream users. A paper published in Hydrology and Earth System Science reports that the effect of wildfire on potential runoff from...
From the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board Protecting Lake Tahoe’s iconic water quality, a joint California-Nevada effort, prevented a record quantity of fine-grained sediment and other pollutants from reaching the lake’s dazzling blue waters in 2025, according to an...
By Ag Alert The Trump administration released a long-awaited plan last week for managing declining water flows in the Colorado River. The framework, which was published Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, will govern how the seven states in...
Q&A with hydrologist Adrienne Marshall on why this past winter’s snowpack fell so low, how global warming increased the odds and what the future may hold By Mitch Tobin, The Water Desk The American West’s historic snow drought in 2026...
By Jennifer Solis, Nevada Current The federal government has released its long-awaited 10-year plan to manage worsening water shortages along the Colorado River, including deep cuts to Nevada’s allocation of the drought-stricken river. Following months of negotiations — and years of...
