California is on the brink of a water crisis, with projections showing a potential decrease in water availability by 4.6 to 9 million acre-feet yearly. Despite conservation efforts, scarcity is inevitable, according to a new report titled “The Magnitude of...
Smoke-covered lakes see shifts in biological and energy processes that influence food webs, carbon storage, and more. By Carolyn Wilke, EOS Wildfires are on the rise. The smoke they bring darkens the sky and deposits ash. Ocean research has provided...
Monthly urban water use data available again online To spur public awareness and promote water conservation, the State Water Resources Control Board is once again publishing a dataset online that allows water managers, policy makers, the media and the public...
Press release from Restore the Delta: A newly published report challenges the financial feasibility of the Delta Conveyance Project (DCP) as outlined...
By Vicky Boyd, Ag Alert Prompted by drought-induced water allocation cutbacks in 2014, the diversified DeJager Farms began looking at buried drip irrigation and manure water from its dairy operations to try to help its farming operations survive. Since then,...
The 1922 Colorado River Compact ignored available science and overallocated the river’s water, a decision whose effects reverberate today. Now there’s an opportunity to get things right. by Shemin Ge, Joann Silverstein, James Eklund, Patricia Limerick and David Stewart On...
