Slimming down a $17 billion plan to shunt water from Northern California to the arid south has the state considering …
California Touts Desalination, but Take It With a Grain of Salt MORE
A California irrigation district with the highest-priority rights to Colorado River water is using its power to demand federal funds …
Bid To Secure Cash For The Salton Sea Stalls Colorado River Drought Plan MORE
The amount of rain that has fallen on California this winter is prodigious — 18 trillion gallons, enough water to …
Press Democrat Editorial: California Needs to Save More of Its Rainwater MORE
California’s Salton Sea is a complicated place that’s not well known outside the Golden State, but its imperiled status has …
Salton Sea Money Demand Clogs Up Colorado River Drought Plans MORE
California’s wet winter has dumped at estimated 18 trillion gallons of rain in February alone. But much of it is …
California’s wet winter has dumped an estimated 18 trillion gallons of rain in February alone. But much of it is …
California Wastes Most of Its Rainwater, Which Simply Goes down the Drain MORE
It was a sultry-hot Sunday in August 2014 when ISIS came to the Iraqi town of Snune. Roaring around the …
The Imperial Irrigation District holds among the oldest and largest rights to water from the Colorado River and is using …
Imperial Irrigation District ties Colorado River plan to Salton Sea funds. Make it happen. MORE
Water continues to be among the biggest stories of our era, and there are waves of change ahead.
The salt and chemicals in the brine left over from desalination can threaten local marine ecosystems…
For decades, California has led the world in efforts to reduce the energy consumption of appliances and buildings…
Peter Gleick is the founder and emeritus director of the Pacific Institute in Berkeley, California, and perhaps the world’s leading …
About 700 million people worldwide lack reliable access to fresh water, a number which might grow due to population growth …
While the Internet fawned over Fiji Water Girl, one of the models hired to pass out bottled drinks and photobomb …
Fawning Over ‘Fiji Water Girl’ Ignores The Evils Of Bottled Water MORE
To subsidize drinking water bills for poor households, California regulators recommend new taxes on bottled water and incomes above $1 …
California Water Board Outlines $606M Bill Assistance Program MORE
Recent droughts across the West have belted drinking-water supplies, withered crops and fanned deadly wildfires.They’ve also squeezed hydroelectric facilities…
During migration season, birds pack the wetlands at the edge of the Salton Sea. Ducks dive, pelicans skim across the …
The West Coast’s Biggest Bird Oasis is Dying. Will it Be Saved? MORE
During the darkest days of the drought that has gripped the western U.S. since the early 2000s, fires raged and …
An Unexpected Side Effect of Drought: Higher Carbon Emissions. MORE
From a fearless 15-year-old standing up to world leaders on climate change to the tragedy of California’s wildfires, these images …
7 Striking Photos That Sum Up Our Turbulent World In 2018 MORE
The U.S. and Mexico Pledge Tough Security After Group of Migrants Tried to Cross Border. A dire U.S. government climate …
A long-debated water plan that could change the course—literally—of water in California, will be up for a vote by the …
Tunnel Vision: This Water Plan Might Make a Splash in the Delta MORE
Earlier this year, state regulators sent California’s roughly 3,000 community water systems an annual report that included what the authors …
Counting Homes Cut Off From Water Is A Data Collection Nightmare MORE
California voters have rejected Proposition 3, the $8.9 billion water bond, sending a message to politicians. But what is that …
The $8.9 billion bond measure on the November 6 ballot covers a lot of ground on water issues. It also …
Untangling the Complexities of California’s Proposition 3 Water Bond MORE
With 5% of the world’s population but only 1% of global freshwater, the Middle East has long been identified as …
How Water, Rather than Oil, Could Spark Conflict in the Middle East MORE
Conflicts over water are on the rise across the globe as populations balloon in Asia and Africa, new dams alter …
Water Conflicts Worldwide Threaten Peace Amid Efforts to Preserve Resources MORE
Oct. 10 marked the 15th anniversary of the signing of the Quantification Settlement Agreement (QSA). The QSA created the nation’s …
Hard Lessons at the Salton Sea from the First 15 Years of the Massive Qsa Water Deal MORE
In November 2015, there was a rare celebration at the Salton Sea. More than 100 people gathered on a dry …
The Salton Sea Is Shrinking Even Faster, and California Still Hasn’t Done Much to Fix It MORE
According to the Beverage Marketing Corporation, bottled water was an $18.5 billion industry in the U.S. in 2017….
For eons, the earth has had the same amount of water—no more, no less. What the ancient Romans used for …
California water officials are poised to approve a revolutionary plan that could redefine the way water is allocated.
No matter how good travel may be for the soul, it’s not always great for the environment….
For thirsty cities, stormwater is a valued resource to shore up water supplies and adapt to climate change…
La Cienega de Santa Clara, sitting at the edge of the Sonoran Desert in northwestern Mexico…
The area surrounding the Salton Sea is home to more than 650,000 people. As the water levels in the sea …
Audubon Urges California to Implement New Salton Sea Funds MORE
A new report from the Pacific Institute outlines creative collaborations and policy changes needed to better scale stormwater solutions…
Water is so precious because it is limited by nature. The science of water economy studies the way in which …
In Deep Water: Water Economy is Threatened by Climate Change MORE
It’s not just beaches and sand that are disappearing as the ocean pushes inland. Sea level rise is also eating …
Saving water may be as simple as changing the type of roof you have, two scientists in Berkeley discovered…
When it comes to conflict over water resources, the stories are as different as the cultures and the context…
A few thousand votes in California’s Imperial Valley could have major consequences for millions of people who depend…
The Salton Sea is steadily disappearing, and communities near it are literally being left in the dust…
Water pumped from hundreds of wells has transformed the desert of the Coachella Valley into a lush patchwork…
Turn to the nation’s most objective and informative daily environmental news resource to learn how the United States and key …
Bottled Water and the Damage Done: Coping With Plastic Pollution MORE
If the preciousness and precariousness of freshwater eludes many of us, the immediate future will likely afford far fewer that …
A Recipe for War: Soon, 40 Percent of People Will Live in Water-stressed Regions MORE
Last fall the National Resource Agency invited proposals for projects involving importing water from the…
California cities and towns may find themselves on a water budget in the next decade under a pair of bills …
California Moves Closer to Crafting Specific Water Caps for Urban Districts MORE
A 14-year NASA mission has confirmed that a massive redistribution of freshwater is occurring across Earth…
In 1988 – the same year Nasa’s James Hansen warned Congress about the threats posed by human-caused global warming – …
California, Battered by Global Warming’s Weather Whiplash, is Fighting to Stop It MORE
