Study finds steepest drops in areas of the Northern Hemisphere reliant on snow for water. By Morgan Kelly, Dartmouth Scientific data from ground observations, satellites, and climate models have not agreed on whether climate change is consistently chipping away at...
Rapid declines are most common in aquifers under croplands in drier regions, including California, the most extensive analysis of groundwater trends so far shows. By Liz Gross, Inside Climate News This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit,...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water When farmers fallowed thousands of acres during the recent drought, most didn’t expect they would be flooding those lands months later. But that’s what happened during last year’s historic floods after the state adapted LandFlex,...
While statewide rainfall is below average, climatologists are especially concerned about the lack of snow in California’s largest “reservoir” — the Sierra Nevada mountain range. By Natalie Hanson, Courthouse News Service Despite a spate of recent storms, scientists say California...
From the Department of Water Resources: California’s water delivery infrastructure needs modernization. The system was built in the 20th century based on the certainty that snow would fall in the winter, be stored in the mountains as snowpack, then melt...
