With the ongoing drought, the outlook for Colorado River is bleak unless huge reductions can be made. By Bob Leal,...
by Jeniffer Solis, Nevada Current Six Western states along the Colorado River have reached a tentative agreement to cut back on shared water use from the river’s two major dams, but California — which receives the largest share of water...
Growers and Southern California cities that get water from the state aqueduct will receive 30% of their requested allocations. That’s...
Recent Storms Allow State Water Project to Increase Expected 2023 Deliveries to 1.27 Million Acre-Feet of Water From the Department...
By Ag Alert The American Farm Bureau Federation and other agricultural and business groups are suing federal agencies, challenging the legality of the government’s new “waters of the United States,” or WOTUS, rule. The lawsuit argues that the U.S. Environmental...
By Vicky Boyd Rich Gemperle likes to describe his family’s crop production style as “soft farming,” in which they try...
With the installation of Adán Ortega as the Chair of the Metropolitan Water District Board of Directors, there have been...
By Naoki Nitta, Grist This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. This story is part of the Cities + Solutions series, which chronicles surprising and inspiring climate initiatives in communities across the U.S. through...
This source accounts for about 10% of all the water that enters this highly productive farmland, including rivers and rain....
Project Aims to Restore the Venerable Asset’s Ability to Convey Water By Gary Pitzer, Bureau of Reclamation When a key...
by Jeniffer Solis, Nevada Current Mountains in the southwestern U.S. are welcoming record-breaking snowpacks this year, but new research shows they are melting at a record pace too. Winter storms have provided the Sierra Nevada snowpack with some of the...
What if valleys — carved by glaciers during the last ice age and filled over millennia with highly permeable sand...
As Western U.S. winter storms grow wetter and change shape, threats to infrastructure like roads and bridges grow in tandem...
By DWR News The wet winter storms in January 2023 have brought a lot of water that has the potential to be stored underground to replenish groundwater basins and help mitigate prolonged drought effects. Extended and extreme periods of drought...
