Drought

We must focus on increasing our water supply and adjusting to our new hydrology with projects for storage, habitat restoration and more.

Water law experts have developed ideas for revising California’s antiquated water laws. Here are some of their recommendations:

The Sierra Nevada hasn’t provided nearly as much water as predicted. Now the state is struggling to overhaul its snow runoff forecasts.

California's projections for how much water it can expect from the Sierra Nevada are far from reality — another result of climate change.

We need to avoid "solutions" that cut allocations to an industry that feeds the nation and supports the economy of the Central Valley.

After record-breaking snowfall at the start of the rainy season, January and February will likely be the driest on record, prolonging California’s drought.

The state water board curtailed water rights in response to the drought and ignored Ukiah’s seniority rights and its sustainable water portfolio.

Water is a public resource that’s vital to ecosystem and community health, and Big Ag should be regulated to ensure its usage is efficient.

California today issued emergency drought rules aimed at wasteful water use. Although snowpack is 150% of average today, climatologists predict dry conditions for the rest of the season. And conservation still lags.

California cities face an array of crippling threats to water supplies: rising seas, extreme weather, drought, contamination, quakes, fires.