California voters in 2014 approved $7.1 billion to prepare for drought. None of the major projects are finished yet. It doesn’t look like much now, a dry and dusty valley surrounded by the ...

Map of drought levels across California as of December 31, 2024. More than 50 percent of the state is abnormally dry despite heavy rain events throughout winter. U.S. Drought Monitor ...

Shasta Lake is the largest reservoir in the state and the cornerstone of California’s Central Valley Project, a complex water system made of 19 dams and reservoirs as well as more than 500 miles ...

Nothing about California water, of course, is simple. There’s much skepticism about whether it makes economic sense to attempt to remove silt from lots of reservoirs.

Holding back 9 miles of lake water with more precipitation flowing in by the minute was the 80-year-old Lake Delhi Dam, constructed of hundreds of feet of earth, concrete, and steel. The water ...

CALIFORNIA’S BIGGEST DAMS Largest reservoirs in California by year built, with reservoir size, dam height and location: Shasta: (1945) 4.5 million acre feet – 521 feet – Shasta County ...

The US Army Corps of Engineers opened two dams on Friday in Central California and let roughly 2.2 billion gallons of water flow out of reservoirs, after President Donald Trump ordered the release ...

Scientists take flight to map California’s vast snowpack and measure flooding threats Aerial snow survey above Sierra Nevada range. (Airborne Snow Observatories) ...

Photos taken before and after a series of powerful storms show California’s replenished lakes and reservoirs following three years of drought that left land cracked, wildlife threatened and ...

While many experts refer to California’s 2013-2016 drought, as though it had a clear beginning and an end, others, like Mount, feel that particular drought hasn’t yet ended — the current ...

As a wet winter continues to fill California reservoirs, water managers set their sights on flood prevention Thursday and Friday by releasing water from stockpiles to make room for approaching ...

Despite California’s drought, a proposed statewide November ballot measure to speed up the construction of new dams and other large water projects — and provide billions of dollars to fund ...