The U.S. Department of the Interior updated operations of the Glen Canyon Dam on Lake Powell in 2016, but conservationists say its management plan doesn’t consider the worsening effects of climate change and drought. By Joe Duhownik, Courthouse News Service...
Arid and semi-arid areas may face especially high risks of extreme heat and fire. By David Hosansky, NCAR The laws of thermodynamics dictate that a warmer atmosphere can hold more water vapor, but new research has found that atmospheric moisture has not...
Last week, the Newsom administration released its salmon strategy aimed at aimed at protecting and restoring salmon “amidst hotter and drier weather exacerbated by climate change.” Here’s what conservation groups and other stakeholders had to say: California Salmon and Steelhead...
By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water How will selling groundwater help keep more groundwater in the San Joaquin Valley’s already critically overtapped aquifers? Water managers in the Kaweah subbasin in northwestern Tulare County hope to find out by having farmers tinker...
From the Department of Water Resources California’s historic effort to bring sustainability to the state’s critically important groundwater basins revealed...
From the Department of Water Resources The Department of Water Resources (DWR), along with its Tribal, state, and federal partners, are testing a pilot project that will help with the reintroduction of juvenile winter-run Chinook salmon, an endangered species, to...
