In total, the water table has dropped at least 30 feet ... (Left: File photo by Sara Nevis/California Department of Water Resources; Right: File photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters) As ...

Kristina Smithe was running a marathon in California a few years ago when she started thinking about all the waste such ...

There was a time when the water under Nick Sahota’s Terra Bella farm was free and abundant, supporting tidy rows of pistachio trees and table grapes ... created by California’s historic ...

California’s water management system is complicated ... To succeed, all options must be on the table. Regulatory outcomes that prevent modest amounts of water diversion as huge flows are ...

Anna Skinner is a Newsweek senior reporter based in Indianapolis. Her focus is reporting on the climate, environment and weather but she also reports on other topics for the National News Team.

In California, they’re limited by politics. Two imminent federal actions promise to greatly influence water policy in California for the next several years. The first arises out of an executive ...

The California Department of Water Resources discovered golden mussels ... Gonzales told Courthouse News that such a proposal has never been on the table. “Once they're here, the only prevention going ...