California

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

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

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago