Previous research in California's Central Valley determined that this location in Merced County subsided approximately 8.6 ft between 1965 and 2016. Credit: USGS Global water resources are stretched ...

IT’S CURRENTLY AT A 89% CAPACITY. CITY AND THE DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES ALSO SHARED SOME ENCOURAGING NEWS ABOUT THE STATE’S GROUNDWATER STORAGE. YEAH, OUR METEOROLOGIST HEATHER WALDMAN JOINS US ...

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A recent satellite-based study has uncovered alarming declines in groundwater storage across High Mountain Asia (HMA), widely ...

METEOROLOGIST HEATHER WALDMAN HAS YOUR NUMBERS. LAST YEAR’S HUGE RAIN AND SNOW TOTALS ALLOWED WATER MANAGERS IN THE SACRAMENTO AREA TO USE 17% LESS GROUNDWATER. THAT’S ACCORDING TO A STUDY RECENTLY ...

After massive downpours flooded California’s rivers and packed mountains with snow, the state reported Monday the first increase in groundwater supplies in four years. The state saw 4.1 million ...

Basinwide, researchers found, groundwater storage has fallen by 27.8 million acre-feet since 2003 — enough water to fill an empty Lake Mead to capacity. Aridification across the Colorado River Basin ...

Yakima has been pumping water over a thousand feet below the surface since 2015, and other efforts are underway across ...