By Farshid Vahedifard, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University In recent weeks, powerful atmospheric river storms have swept...
By MacKenzie Elmer, Voice of San Diego This story was first published by Voice of San Diego. Sign up for VOSD’s...
New research aims to create the first country-wide database of unsafe dams and the communities they threaten, using data from Sentinel-1 satellite. By the American Geophysical Union Dams in the United States may be in worse condition than previously understood....
Commentary by Adán Ortega, Executive Director of CalMutuals, an association dedicated to ensuring effective and compliant operation and governance of...
From Berkeley Lab: Today’s technologies depend increasingly on computers and artificial intelligence – largely powered by data centers, which have...
Unique public-private partnership brings together NASA, USGS, Google, Environmental Defense Fund, and more to make scientifically rigorous evapotranspiration data widely available Press release from OpenET OpenET, a nonprofit initiative dedicated to providing easily accessible satellite-based data for improved water management,...
Proposed project would provide up to 82,000 acre-feet of new offstream water storage Press release from the Bureau of Reclamation...
Even among experts the cost of water supplies is hard to pin down. A new study reveals huge differences in...
RESEARCH ARTICLE: Water demand projection accuracy and demand management trends in California cities
From Water Resources Research: This study investigates the accuracy of long-term water demand projections and tracks the evolution of water demand management incentives across 61 California water suppliers from 2000 to 2020. Through a systematic analysis of Urban Water Management...
From the Department of Water Resources: California’s San Joaquin Basin is at the center of the state’s water challenges, with...
Commentary by Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center A few years ago I...
An AI server farm tsunami threatens to overwhelm the West’s power grid and water supplies. By Jonathan Thompson, High Country News This is an installment of the Landline, a monthly newsletter from High Country News about land, water, wildlife, climate and conservation in the Western...
There’s a way to reduce both the climate and water harms of data centers: build them in places with lots...
Efforts needed to reduce data center emissions and water use, report authors say By UC Newsroom Researchers from the University...
By MacKenzie Elmer, voice of San Diego There’s a debate over whether the city of San Diego should or could build a smaller sewage-to-drinking water recycling project than originally planned. If fully built out, the project costs would top $5...