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...
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...
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...
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 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...
