People have worked for a century to make California’s Tulare Basin into a food grower’s paradise. That pastoral landscape now looks more like the Pacific Ocean in many areas.

California’s ‘phantom lake’ returns with a vengeance, unearthing an ugly history of water A mailbox stands in the floodwaters that have innundated farms near the community of Stratford ...

California counts on a system of about 1,400 human-made surface reservoirs and thousands upon thousands of miles of levees to manage surface water. About two dozen large reservoirs are responsible ...

Lake Tamarisk, a man-made lake in Lake Tamarisk Desert Resort in Desert Center, California, on Monday, May 8, 2023. Credit: Alex Gould. Seven utility-scale solar projects stretching out across ...

Other counties in California are doing better at retaining water. The Orange County Water District, south of Los Angeles, uses domestic sources for 81 percent of its supplies.

The story of California’s water wars begins, as so many stories do in the Golden State, with gold. The prospectors who raced westward after 1848 scoured fortunes out of mountainsides using water ...

As such, th e couple's corporation controls 57.7% of the water storage facility, which can hold up to 1.5 million acre-feet of water — about 3.75% of California's water.

President Trump falsely claimed the LA fires were a result of the state’s water policies. DOGE agents flew to California to turn pumps on themselves.

24,500,000,000,000 gallons of water have fallen across California over the last 16 ... Sarah Rogowski of the National Weather Service's Regional Operations Center was able to provide CBS News ...

Five months into this water year, counted Oct. 1 through Sept. 30, more than 44 feet has fallen there at the Central Snow Laboratory, a University of California, Berkeley field research station.