Rice requires huge amounts of water. That’s why flooded fields become artificial habitats for migrating birds. But California has never naturally had huge amounts of water over many years.

California’s new water wars are about artificial intelligence, not agriculture. Data centers rely heavily on water-intensive cooling systems.

One of California’s leading voices in rice farming is warning the State Water Resources Control Board that rejecting a set of voluntary agreements for its Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan ...

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 ...

That’s after California conservation nonprofit River Partners secured millions for restoration work on 750 acres from state wildlife agencies and Apple Inc., the multinational tech company.

When flooded rice acres drop below 300,000, he said, waterfowl managers worry that populations won’t find enough to eat. “Birds can move around the landscape, but they still need enough food … ...

California regulators on Tuesday cleared the way for widespread use of advanced filtration and treatment facilities designed to convert sewage waste into pure drinking water that can be pumped ...

Our water system was built for a different century, a time before climate change intensified droughts and supercharged winter storms, before California grew to nearly 40 million people and before ...

This week the California Department of Water Resources said that it was planning for a dry 2025, announcing that the initial allocation forecast for the State Water Project is just 5%.

SACRAMENTO, California — A California Democratic state lawmaker introduced a bill Monday to make the release of water from reservoirs under false pretenses a misdemeanor after the Trump ...