This source accounts for about 10% of all the water that enters this highly productive farmland, including rivers and rain. By NASA/JPL In a recent study, scientists found that a previously unmeasured source – water percolating through soil and fractured...
What if valleys — carved by glaciers during the last ice age and filled over millennia with highly permeable sand —extended down into California’s drought-addled Central Valley and could channel rain and snowmelt into aquifers like a storm drain? Some...
Collaborative efforts reopen six additional miles of habitat to migrating and resident fish. By NOAA Fisheries California salmon are now traversing a rocky stretch of river northeast of Sacramento for the first time in a century. Until a few months...
By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory In April 2022, a team of engineers hiked into California’s Sierra Nevada mountains...
By Paul Stanton Kibel In the field of natural resources policy, there is a longstanding tendency for good science to get compromised and diluted when it comes to final agency actions and policies. In the water policy arena, this tendency...
