IT’S CURRENTLY AT A 89% CAPACITY. CITY AND THE DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES ALSO SHARED SOME ENCOURAGING NEWS ABOUT THE STATE’S GROUNDWATER STORAGE. YEAH, OUR METEOROLOGIST HEATHER WALDMAN JOINS US ...

Previous research in California's Central Valley determined that this location in Merced County subsided approximately 8.6 ft between 1965 and 2016. Credit: USGS Global water resources are stretched ...

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Beneath the farms and cities of the American West and Great Plains, aquifers that took thousands of years to fill are losing water faster than rain and snowmelt can replace it. The states paying the ...

After massive downpours flooded California’s rivers and packed mountains with snow, the state reported Monday the first increase in groundwater supplies in four years. The state saw 4.1 million ...

METEOROLOGIST HEATHER WALDMAN HAS YOUR NUMBERS. LAST YEAR’S HUGE RAIN AND SNOW TOTALS ALLOWED WATER MANAGERS IN THE SACRAMENTO AREA TO USE 17% LESS GROUNDWATER. THAT’S ACCORDING TO A STUDY RECENTLY ...

California’s water future isn’t just about scarcity—it’s about cost. A new study published in Nature Sustainability reveals that when drought hits, the price of surface water from rivers, lakes, and ...

Basinwide, researchers found, groundwater storage has fallen by 27.8 million acre-feet since 2003 — enough water to fill an empty Lake Mead to capacity. Aridification across the Colorado River Basin ...

The good news is that the San Joaquin Valley has managed to store a little more groundwater since the drought of 2016. The bad news is that it is hard to keep account of what's working and what's not.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. California’s historic 2023 rainy season was ...