Tag Archives: drought

The University of Arizona recently announced results from a study that studied the annual growth rings of trees to reconstruct a long-term climate history and examine the duration and frequency of “perfect droughts” in Southern California’s main water sources. According to the research, severe droughts happened simultaneously in the regions …

Last week state agencies released a draft water resilience portfolio with recommended actions to help California cope with more extreme droughts and floods, rising temperatures, declining fish populations, aging infrastructure and other challenges. The California Natural Resources Agency, California Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Food and Agriculture developed the …

The Yuba Water Agency (YWA) and the U.C. San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography previously launched of the first of several weather balloons to study atmospheric rivers and develop new tools specific to the Yuba and Feather River watersheds. Atmospheric rivers, which have been studied for nearly two decades, are …

The first snowpack survey of 2020 by the Department of Water Resources (DWR) at Phillips Station provided encouraging news. The manual survey recorded 33.5 inches of snow depth and a snow water equivalent (SWE) of 11 inches, which is 97 percent of average for this location. “While the series of cold …

Gov Gavin Newsom and threats of suing President Trump are endangering the California Water War agreement.  This provisional agreement, set up by Newsom’s predecessor, resolved a more than ten year-old controversy over how much water should be left in the state’s major rivers to bolster the endangered fish populations. This …

In the last 50 years, Californians have invested heavily to create one of the largest and most unified water infrastructure systems in the world, carrying water all over the state, manage floods, and store water. Despite this fantastic achievement, most of the water still primarily comes from groundwater and snowpack. …