Growers and Southern California cities that get water from the state aqueduct will receive 30% of their requested allocations. That’s the most in January since 2017, after heavy rains fed the reservoirs. By Alastair Bland, Cal Matters This story was...
By Vicky Boyd Rich Gemperle likes to describe his family’s crop production style as “soft farming,” in which they try to leave the lightest footprint possible on the ground. To prove his point, he recently dug a shovelful of soil...
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...
