Forests managed by timber companies were more likely to exhibit the conditions that megafires love—dense stands of regularly spaced trees with continuous vegetation connecting the understory to the canopy. By Lisa Potter, University of Utah The odds of high-severity wildfire...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: As part of the State Water Boards’ efforts to better understand groundwater recharge in California, the Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment (GAMA) program has released a website entitled Effects of Recharge on Groundwater...
From the Department of Water Resources: Twenty-seven million Californians, including seven million in disadvantaged communities, rely on the State Water...
Dozens of Tribes, Delta residents, environmental justice leaders, fishing groups, and conservation advocates unite at State Capitol to demand protection...
By Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization and winner of multiple Pulitzer prizes, recently published a report “The Drying Planet.” They report that “Moisture lost to evaporation and...
By Jane Sooby The August 21, 2025, meeting of the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board was devoted mostly to discussion on developing an Alternative Water Supply Program (AWS). The meeting, characterized as the first “public workshop” on the...
By S. Mehmet Ozsoy, Concordia University and Erkan Yonder, Concordia University Unlike hurricanes and floods, which arrive suddenly and tend to dominate headlines with dramatic images of wrecked homes and submerged towns, droughts are often overlooked by media, governments and...
