Press release from the Sites Project Authority The Sites Project Authority announced that during the recent atmospheric river events, Sites Reservoir would have been filling, and it is estimated that Sites could capture more than 168,000 acre-feet of water from...
By Farshid Vahedifard, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University In recent weeks, powerful atmospheric river storms have swept...
By: James Salzman, University of California, Santa Barbara; University of California, Los Angeles Growing up in the 1970s, I took for granted the trash piles along the highway, tires washed up on beaches, and smog fouling city air. The famed...
The panel agreed with a trial judge that Water Resources hadn’t met its burden to show the controversial project qualifies as a modification of the existing infrastructure for which the department has authority to issue bonds. By Edvard Pettersson, Courthouse...
By Monserrat Solis, SJV Water Even as the state has given Kings County farmers a deadline to begin reporting groundwater extractions, with pumping fees to follow, it refuses to meet with managers who are feeling their way through the silence...
By Western Ecological Research Center (WERC), USGS California’s breeding populations of dabbling ducks have declined and the factors contributing to...
Series of atmospheric rivers provided significant snowpack gains, boosted water supply statewide Press release from the Department of Water Resources The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today conducted the first snow survey of the season at Phillips Station. The manual...
