At the February meeting of the California Water Commission, the commissioners began their 2022 State Water Project review by hearing...
The Sierra Nevada has not provided as much water as predicted. Now the state is scrambling to revise its snow...
by Matt Vasilogambros, Stateline The golden hills of California have turned green in recent weeks after a series of storms delivered much-needed rain and snow to a state suffering from two years of drought. But state officials and water policy...
By the Department of Water Resources: California is no stranger to devastating floods. With the most variable weather conditions in...
By Justin Fredrickson, Ag Alert California is facing an indisputable fact: We need, in a big way, to get busy...
Hosing off driveways and excessive lawn watering could net Californians $500 fines under new emergency drought rules. By Nick Cahill, Courthouse News Service Californians will again see water-wasting rules despite a record-breaking month of snow and rain as drought regulators...
By Erica Yee, Cal Matters Droughtsville, California, is in trouble. Its water supply is endangered as multiple crises intensify: worsening...
Suddenly flush with cash, drought-riddled California has a golden opportunity to update its 20th century water infrastructure and retrofit it...
By Aries Keck, NASA Applied Sciences OpenET uses publicly available data to provide satellite-based information on evapotranspiration (the “ET” in OpenET). The primary satellite dataset for OpenET is from the Landsat program, a partnership between NASA and the U.S. Geological...
Each month, the Water Hub is checking in with advocates & organizers in California to talk about water issues impacting...
From the Department of Water Resources: Water Year 2021 (October 1, 2020 to September 30, 2021) was an extreme year...
From the Army Corps of Engineers: As drought persists in the state of California, the need to increase water supply reliability is an essential issue facing water managers. A new report evaluating a pilot program to use advanced weather and...
In March of this year, the Secretaries of the Natural Resources Agency, Environmental Protection Agency, and Department of Food and...
By Alastair Bland, Cal Matters Water plays a lead role in the state’s political theater, with Democrats and Republicans polarized,...
Reservoirs are often constructed and operated for multiple purposes, such as water supply, flood control, hydropower, recreation, and environmental enhancement. However, managing the reservoir for multiple purposes is challenging and often involves tradeoffs between sometimes competing needs. Forecast-informed reservoir operations...