From DWR News On April 8, DWR published the Bulletin 120 and Water Supply Index (WSI) forecast update. The Bulletin...
By Nate Seltenrich Rising seas are coming for Suisun Marsh, and without careful management some of its most critical habitats...
By Rachel Becker and Julie Cart, CalMatters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Painting alarming scenes of fires, floods and economic disruption, the California Legislature’s advisors today released a series of reports that lays...
Groundwater is one of the world’s most important natural resources,but groundwater management has traditionally been governed by lax and uneven...
DWR Director Karla Nemeth discusses the Department’s efforts to respond to the drought and why she is optimistic we can...
IPCC warns of continued intense droughts, rising health risks and economic turmoil by Jeniffer Solis, Nevada Current Climate change is causing widespread and irreversible impacts to nature and humanity far faster than scientists had anticipated, and the Southwestern U.S. will...
By Ariel Rubissow-Okamoto, Knee Deep Times The buzz about horizontal levees began more than five years ago, when the East...
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From the Planning and Conservation League: Summers are getting hotter. Rain and snowpack are disappearing, and water reserves are shrinking. This reduction of readily available, adequate water resources is creating a crisis that directly harms Californians and our environment. We...
By DWR: Rain and snowfall in California have always been inconsistent and unpredictable. It is our climate’s natural state. The...
New ways to boost fish nutrition and identify species, a new bird atlas raises red flags, preparing for a snowless...
by Robin Meadows Mountains are the foundation of water in the western United States, natural infrastructure that captures snowfall during the winter and releases snowmelt over the spring and summer. In California, the snowpack holds nearly as much water on...
Natural variability dominates modeled uncertainty in California precipitation By Beth Mundy, PNNL Over the past 40 years, winters in California...
The Department of Water Resources (DWR) hosted four informational webinars between July and September 2021 to provide background information related...
By Roger Bales, University of California, Merced California is preparing for a third straight year of drought, and officials are tightening limits on water use to levels never seen so early in the water year. Most of the state’s water...