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Featured in The San Diego Tribune
California is going into spring with a minuscule amount of snow in the Sierra Nevada, leaving the state in a third year of extreme drought and with depleted reservoirs to draw on during what’s likely to be another hot, parched summer.
Featured in San Francisco Examiner
The Sierra Nevada roughly translates to “snowy mountain range” in Spanish, but as the world warms, the dense snowpack that gave the high peaks its name is waning.
As the summer months inch closer, state officials have made clear that the drought gripping the state is set to continue based on snowpack data released Friday.
Featured in CBS SF Bay Area
California is experiencing one of the driest starts to spring in decades, data showed Friday, and absent a heavy dose of April and May showers the state’s drought will deepen and that could lead to stricter rules on water use and another devastating wildfire season.
Featured in San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco’s water and power supply are intimate bedfellows.
Nearly 20 percent of The City’s energy is generated by water stored at Cherry Lake and Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, a glacial valley in the northwestern corner of Yosemite National Park – the same water that spills from our taps.
Featured in KCBX
Governor Gavin Newsom is leaving it up to local water agencies to decide whether mandatory rationing is necessary at this point in the state’s drought.
Californians actually increased water use this January compared to the previous year, leaving experts who track water conservation concerned.
Featured in SFGATE
As a dry summer looms, California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered water suppliers across California to step up their local drought responses, but fell short of requiring water rationing or setting a statewide conservation target.
Featured in CalMatters
As a dry summer looms, California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered water suppliers across California to step up their local drought responses, but fell short of requiring water rationing or setting a statewide conservation target.
Featured on KPCC
Just as we emerge from one mandate, Californians might be facing another one. Not masks, but water.
Featured in The Economist
Shortly after Vladimir Putin began his bloody invasion of Ukraine, Russian soldiers destroyed a dam in the Kherson oblast that had blocked water from flowing into Crimea. The move was symbolic as well as utilitarian.
Featured in Los Angeles Times
Then-Gov. Jerry Brown made a mistake in 2017 when he declared the drought over. The drought wasn’t over then, and it won’t be over even if the rain falls.
Featured in Yahoo News
Drained reservoirs. Dwindling snowpack. Bone-dry soils.
After a record dry start to 2022, California water officials announced Friday that they were cutting State Water Project allocations from 15% to 5%, and warned residents to brace for a third year of drought.
Featured in Los Angeles Times
Drained reservoirs. Dwindling snowpack. Bone-dry soils.
After a record dry start to 2022, California water officials announced Friday that they were cutting State Water Project allocations from 15% to 5%, and warned residents to brace for a third year of drought.
