By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory In April 2022, a team of engineers hiked into California’s Sierra Nevada mountains...
By Andrew Fisher, University of California, Santa Cruz California has seen so much rain over the past few weeks that farm fields are inundated and normally dry creeks and drainage ditches have become torrents of water racing toward the ocean....
By Madison Hirneisen | The Center Square After an all-day hearing Thursday, the California Coastal Commission approved a permit for a desalination plant in Monterey County despite acknowledging the project poses significant environmental justice concerns and could result in increased...
By Grayson Zulauf, a clean energy entrepreneur and holds a PhD in Power Electronics from Stanford University If the climate crisis is coming, the water crisis is already here. As rice fields were fallowed in California, Lake Mead water levels...
After rejecting a controversial proposal in Huntington Beach, the state Coastal Commission greenlights another in Dana Point. While environmentalists raised...
Climate change and drought are forcing California to reimagine its water supply future. One promising tool in the toolbox is water recycling, something California has been doing since the 1970s. Recycled water can be used for agricultural and landscape irrigation,...
By Jake Bittle, Grist This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. This story is part of the Grist series Parched, an in-depth look at how climate change-fueled drought is reshaping communities, economies, and ecosystems....
