Communities, largely home to low-income Latino residents, still have dry wells. Restoring groundwater takes decades, with costly, long-term replenishment projects — and ultimately, much less pumping. By Alastair Bland, Cal Matters The powerful storms that clobbered California for weeks in...
By Daniel Craig McCool, University of Utah As Western states haggle over reducing water use because of declining flows in the Colorado River Basin, a more hopeful drama is playing out in Glen Canyon. Lake Powell, the second-largest U.S. reservoir,...
Golden State officials say they have senior water rights. By Bob Leal, Courthouse News Service While six states came up with a consensus plan earlier this week regarding cutting water use from a dwindling supply of the Colorado River, a...
Jamie Johansson, California Farm Bureau Federation Now that the recent series of Pacific storms have abated and we are in a period of dry weather, we are reminded of the twin imperatives to operate our water infrastructure for sporadic flood...
A new study shows that midwinter dry spells lead to dramatic losses of winter snowpack in burned areas By the Desert Research Institute: The early pandemic years overlapped with some of California’s worst wildfires on record, creating haunting, orange-tinted skies...
