Drought

When the California drought forced hundreds of domestic wells to dry up, the small farming town of East Porterville became the poster child for the parched state. Although the state has spent upwards of $16 million delivering bottled water in areas throughout the Golden State where approximately 2,000 wells have …

The ongoing issue of California’s drought now faces additional issues with the increasing number of dead trees in the Southern Sierra Nevada forests and a budget lacking the resources for fighting massive wildfire disasters. The U.S. Forest Service maintains that, “With the increasing size and costs of suppressing wildfires due …

Four consecutive years of drought and a less-than-hoped-for El Nino this past winter have not been wiped away by one winter’s worth of near average snowfall in the Sierra Nevada mountains. A study published earlier this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, a publication of the American Geophysical Union, …

Water for thirsty Californians from the near average snowpack in the northern Sierras is melting away. As Southern California continues to bake from near record-breaking heat and the federal government’s Drought Monitor points to the region as continuing to suffer an “exceptional drought” status, the recent news that the snowmelt …

Tuolumne Utilities District (TUD) is slated to begin design and permitting in order to improve the water quality and storage capacity of Phoenix Lake and Phoenix Lake watershed. The Phoenix Lake Preservation and Restoration Project will start next week. Using a floating barge, Horizon Water and Environment, Inc. and its …

A series of workshops have been scheduled by the California Natural Resources Agency to provide information and solicit input on the state’s Salton Sea Management Program (SSMP). The Salton Sea is California’s largest lake. Geographically at thirty-five miles long and 15 miles wide, the desert lake extends from the Coachella …