Drought

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.

State officials warn some of the state’s most powerful and largest agricultural districts that their plans fail to address how over-pumping could harm local communities' drinking water supplies.

As the drought dries up California’s wetlands, traveling birds such as ducks, geese and eagles are struggling to survive and breed. “This drought is bad. The odds are against us,” a state expert said.

En resumen A medida que la sequía seca los humedales de California, las aves que viajan como patos, gansos y águilas luchan por sobrevivir y reproducirse. “Esta sequía es muy mala. Las probabilidades están en nuestra contra”, dijo un experto estatal. Read this article in English. Dice algo sobre la complejidad de la crisis del agua de California […]

Rain is descending on California as a bomb cyclone and atmospheric river hit the state, enough to end fire season but not the drought.

Good morning, California. It’s Wednesday, October 20. No state restrictions — yet You don’t have to conserve water — but the state would really, really appreciate it if you do. That was the message Gov. Gavin Newsom sent Tuesday when he declared a drought emergency for the entire state of California — a move that […]