San Diego County is experiencing extreme heat and wildfires, which can increase the risk of drought, although major water ...

California has built a complex state-run system of canals and dams to capture and store the water in reservoirs for the hot, dry months when it doesn’t rain or snow.

California has built a complex state-run system of canals and dams to capture and store the water in reservoirs for the hot, dry months when it doesn’t rain or snow.

California has built a complex state-run system of canals and dams to capture and store the water in reservoirs for the hot, dry months when it doesn’t rain or snow.

Klyuchevskoi, Krasheninnikov, Avachinsky and others have all woken up following the 8.8 magnitude quake, the strongest in the ...

California's water reserves have improved in some areas since last spring, with several of the state's largest reservoirs storing more water on April 13, than they did on the same day in 2024.

Work on the Sites Reservoir, west of Maxwell in Colusa County, starts when crews begin testing soils and rocks in and around the 14,000 acre site of the proposed lake, said Fritz Durst, chairman of ...

The water in California’s mountain snowpack is just shy of average as spring begins, and a winter storm coming to the Sierra Nevada should offer a boost. The statewide snowpack measured 90% of ...

That means that if California’s forests were thinned appropriately, 2.2 million acre-feet of water would be added to California’s water supply in an average year.

Meanwhile, California Department of Water Resources (DWR) data shows most of the state's major reservoirs are performing much above average for this time of year.

Overflowing reservoirs in wet months often waste water that could serve communities later. That’s why storage, specifically smarter, long-term storage, is key to a more balanced statewide water ...

The water in California’s mountain snowpack is just shy of average as spring begins, but a winter storm set to hit the Sierra Nevada in the coming days will offer a boost. Nearly all of the ...