Hosing off driveways and excessive lawn watering could net Californians $500 fines under new emergency drought rules. By Nick Cahill,...
By Todd Plain, Bureau of Reclamation As snow continues to pile up in the Sierra Nevada mountains at the start of 2022, local and federal water managers alike, eagerly anticipate data from snow surveys to find out how much snow is on the ground, the water content of the snow, and exactly where it has fallen. Estimating...
Written by Robert Shibatani As we welcome in the New Year, our reservoir status has taken on a whole new...
Drought Relief Will Depend on Remaining Wet Season From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR)...
By Erica Yee, Cal Matters Droughtsville, California, is in trouble. Its water supply is endangered as multiple crises intensify: worsening droughts, competition for scarce supplies, sea level rise, groundwater contamination, earthquakes, wildfires and extreme weather. All of these factors, and...
At the December meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Dr. Laurel Larsen, Delta Lead Scientist, spotlighted an article on the...
New ways to boost fish nutrition and identify species, a new bird atlas raises red flags, preparing for a snowless...
ESSAY Use Care When Interpreting Correlations: The Ammonium Example in the San Francisco EstuaryJames E. Cloernhttps://doi.org/10.15447/sfews.2021v19iss4art1 RESEARCH Patterns of Water Use in CaliforniaJohn Helly, Daniel Cayan, Thomas Corringham, Jennifer Stricklin, Todd Hillairehttps://doi.org/10.15447/sfews.2021v19iss4art2 A Survey of X2 Isohaline Empirical Models for...
From the Delta Science Program:...
by Robin Meadows Mountains are the foundation of water in the western United States, natural infrastructure that captures snowfall during...
Board staff give an update on the progress on the Bay Delta Water Quality Control Plan, including an potential timeline that would implement San Joaquin River objectives and Sacramento River and Delta objectives by 2023 At the December 8 meeting...
By the USGS Atmospheric rivers aren’t a new phenomenon on the West Coast, but this type of storm has drawn...
by Jeniffer Solis, Nevada Current Historically excluded from Colorado River negotiations, tribes are demanding to be included in policy discussions...
By Christine Souza The atmospheric river storm that brought some rain and snow to the parched state may serve as a reminder that California is still waiting to build planned infrastructure for storing water in wet years for use in...