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...
By Ariel Rubissow-Okamoto, Knee Deep Times The buzz about horizontal levees began more than five years ago, when the East Bay’s Oro Loma Sanitary District near San Lorenzo began experimenting with building a wedge-shaped levee, planting it with natives, and...
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From the Planning and Conservation League: Summers are getting hotter. Rain and snowpack are disappearing, and water reserves are shrinking....
By DWR: Rain and snowfall in California have always been inconsistent and unpredictable. It is our climate’s natural state. The realities of climate change, that take the inconsistent nature of precipitation in California to an extreme, are making water management...
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...
Natural variability dominates modeled uncertainty in California precipitation By Beth Mundy, PNNL Over the past 40 years, winters in California have become drier. This is a problem for the region’s agricultural operations, as farmers rely on winter precipitation to irrigate...
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...
At the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) Fall Conference held last week, the keynote speaker at the luncheon was State Water Resources Control Board Vice Chair Dorene D’Adamo, who spoke of the Board’s efforts on water supplies, conservation, and...
Each month, the Water Hub is checking in with advocates and organizers in California to talk about the water issues...
Written by Elyse De Franco Writing in the June 2021 issue of San Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science, a group...
GUEST COMMENTARY: Our Enduring Water Supply: Are the Answers to California’s Water Problems Obvious?
Written by Robert Shibatani Is there a water supply problem in California? To answer such a question, much depends on who one asks. For in the politically ideological and highly volatile world that is California water, we would likely...