blog post Metropolitan Water District: “We’re the Squirrels of the Water System” By Sarah Bardeen May 8, 2023 May 8, 2023 ... We've all got to pull our weight—and it's not something we're going to pull back from. Topics. Colorado river Drought Floods infrastructure ...
blog post Video: Making the Most of a Wet Year By Sarah Bardeen May 1, 2023 May 1, 2023 ... photo - Flooded fields and properties after March 2023 storms In ... Where are we most vulnerable to flooding, and what might we do better?
blog post The Toll of the San Joaquin Valley Floods: “It’s Not Pretty” By Sarah Bardeen Apr 26, 2023 Apr 26, 2023 ... Lois Henry is the engine behind the small but mighty two-person journalistic operation that is SJV Water, an independent, nonprofit news ...
blog post The Mad Dash to Save Dairy Cattle as Tulare Basin Flooded By Caitlin Peterson, Sarah Bardeen Apr 24, 2023 Apr 24, 2023 ... When low-elevation snow melted during a warm storm in March, the resulting flood in the Tulare Lake basin put 100000 cattle and over a dozen ...
blog post Storms, Floods, and COVID-19 Have Worsened Long-standing Farmworker Housing Challenges By Paulette Cha Apr 12, 2023 High housing costs in California have long been a major challenge, especially for low-income residents. Recent crises have added to the housing woes facing ...
blog post Commentary: Catastrophic Floods and Breached Levees Reveal a Problem California Too Often Neglects By Jeffrey Mount, Brett Sanders Apr 10, 2023 Apr 10, 2023 ... For much of the past decade, Californians have been fixated on drought, and rightly so. But the storms of the past winter, and the ...
blog post Reservoirs Are Full, But Let’s Not Celebrate Just Yet By Greg Gartrell Apr 3, 2023 Apr 3, 2023 ... ... they are not allowed to be full in the fall, when they are drawn down to make room for flood control. Furthermore, not all the water in ...
blog post An Epic Snowpack May Test Water Management in the San Joaquin Valley By Jeffrey Mount Mar 13, 2023 Mar 13, 2023 ... Snowmelt—along with rainfall runoff—led to flooding and localized levee failures along the San Joaquin River. But the big story of that year ...
blog post Testimony: Adapting California’s Water Rights System to the 21st-Century Climate By Ellen Hanak, Brian Gray, Jeffrey Mount Feb 28, 2023 Feb 28, 2023 ... In consequence, our water infrastructure and operations have long had the goal of managing for both multi-year droughts and episodic floods.
blog post Can Nine Atmospheric Rivers Recharge California’s Groundwater? By Sarah Bardeen Feb 6, 2023 Feb 6, 2023 ... We have to put quite a bit more effort into recharging water to make up for the deficit we're creating in drought years, and flooding fields is ...