blog post Adapting to a Water-Scarce California By Ellen Hanak Jan 9, 2023 Jan 9, 2023 ... As Department of Water Resources director Karla Nemeth said at our fall conference in November, there is no silver bullet to fix ...
blog post The Promise of a Wet January By Jeffrey Mount Jan 5, 2023 Jan 5, 2023 ... The combination of high rainfall rates and winds causes urban and river flooding, as well as landslides and debris flows (especially in ...
event Surplus and Shortage: California’s Water Balancing Act Nov 18, 2022 As climate change accelerates, it's bringing more extreme weather to California: The dry periods are hotter and drier than ever before—and the wet periods ...
blog post Climate-Challenged California Must Learn to Thrive with Less Water By Ellen Hanak, Jeffrey Mount Nov 16, 2022 Nov 16, 2022 ... Join us on Friday, November 18 for our fall water priorities conference ... for conditions during the mid-20th century when precipitation, ...
Report Priorities for California’s Water By Jeffrey Mount, Ellen Hanak, Sarah Bardeen, Alvar Escriva-Bou ... Nov 14, 2022 Nov 30, 2022 ... Over the past two years, low rainfall, warming, an increasingly thirsty atmosphere, and losses in snowpack have broken two of our most ...
Report Storing Water for the Environment By Sarah Null, Jeffrey Mount, Brian Gray, Kristen Dybala ... Aug 22, 2022 Water users will hold on to water that remains in reservoirs in the fall for use if the following year is dry. But if winter precipitation is high, ...
Report Exploring the Potential for Water-Limited Agriculture in the San Joaquin Valley By Caitlin Peterson, Cameron Pittelkow, Mark Lundy Jul 20, 2022 Crops such as winter wheat grown using only precipitation to supply crop water requirements were once commonplace in the valley. Yet highly variable rainfall ...
blog post Our Experts Weigh In on the Drought By Ellen Hanak, Jeffrey Mount, Alvar Escriva-Bou, Sarah Bardeen Jul 19, 2022 Jul 19, 2022 ... Decent rains fell into some reservoirs, but Shasta barely got anything. Shasta is so critical for managing cold water for salmon that it's ...
Policy Brief Policy Brief: Tracking Where Water Goes in a Changing Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta By Greg Gartrell, Jeffrey Mount, Ellen Hanak May 16, 2022 Rain and snow in the headwaters, along with rainfall in the valley and the Delta, generate runoff. The volume of runoff varies dramatically between wet and ...
Policy Brief Policy Brief: Drought and California’s Agriculture By Alvar Escriva-Bou, Josué Medellín-Azuara, Ellen Hanak, John Abatzoglou Apr 13, 2022 Apr 26, 2022 ... ... swings between wet and dry conditions—or “precipitation whiplash. ... to get more stored surface water into the ground in the fall, ...