DUNNIGAN, Calif. — As storms have drenched Northern California, water diverted from the swollen Sacramento River has been flowing from a canal and pouring onto 200 acres of farmland. For more ...

In a closed-door negotiation last week over the fate of the Colorado River, representatives from California’s powerful water districts proposed modeling what the basin’s future would look like ...

As a bomb cyclone hits California this week and dumps massive amounts of water on the state, some people are asking: why can't we save the water for times when we desperately need it?

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 ...

A California city’s water supply is expected to run out in two months Amid a historic drought and record shortages, Coalinga searches for extra water to make it through the year October 10, 2022 ...

Sean de Guzman, left, and other officials from the California Department of Water Resources begin the measurement phase of the third media snow survey of the 2023 season at Phillips Station on Friday.

California became the second U.S. state to allow agencies to purify wastewater and turn it into tap water as a way of adapting to drought conditions. By Shawn Hubler Reporting from Sacramento ...

Chart Shows Dramatic Change in California's 'Zombie Lakes' Water Levels Published Sep 01, 2023 at 4:58 PM EDT Updated Sep 21, 2023 at 4:34 PM EDT ...

Community water challenges In 2012, California became the first state in the country to define water access as a human right. But a decade later, communities up and down the state still struggle ...

California officials have approved a first-of-its-kind regulation that will set long-term limits on the amounts of water the state’s urban utilities can use on an annual basis. The State Water ...