California Water Agencies Hoped A Deluge Would Recharge Their Aquifers. But When It Came, Some Couldn’t Use It

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WESTERN WATER IN-DEPTH: January storms jump-started recharge projects in badly overdrafted San Joaquin Valley, but hurdles with state permits and…

LADWP Confirms Elevation of Mono Lake Is Rising, No Emergency Conditions Present

2 years ago

[H2O IQ editor's note: also see the immediately preceding post concerning the Mono Lake Tribe of California and its concerns…

Mono Lake Tribe Seeks to Assert Water Rights, Calls for Emergency Halt of Water Diversions to Los Angeles

2 years ago

Photo: A grove of tufa towers along the south shore of Mono Lake, California, where long-term drought, global warming and…

What does (slow) water want? Most humans seem to have forgotten.

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Erica Gies is an independent journalist who covers science and the environment from Victoria, British Columbia, and San Francisco, California.…

THIS JUST IN …Governor Newsom Signs Order to Build Water Resilience Amid Climate-Driven Extreme Weather

2 years ago

From the Office of the Governor: Governor Gavin Newsom today signed an executive order to protect the state’s water supplies…

These 2 NASA satellites are ‘smart water meters’ that can track groundwater in Northern California

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Northern California's surface water is relatively easy to track. Mainly because we can see it: accumulating in the snowpack and…

Watershed Moments

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Changing the way we see California's landscapes. California Trout is proud to present Watershed Moments to educate, enlighten, and connect…

Waterkeeper Alliance Responds to EPA’s Latest Plan for Regulating PFAS Discharges

2 years ago

Points to New Great Lakes Study as Reason for More Urgency Waterkeeper Alliance is responding to the U.S. Environmental Protection…

From snowpack to groundwater: Here’s a look at water supply conditions across California

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The first week of February brought only modest amounts of rain and snow but despite that, California's snowpack and many…

Challenges of Forecasting Water Supply During Extreme Weather Events

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Photo: Deep snow has blanketed the meadow where the second media snow survey of the 2023 season was held at…