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The Water News Network is San Diego County’s source for water news and information.
Breaking Impasse, Feds Will Include Salton Sea In Seven-State Drought Plan, IID Says
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /The Desert Sun (Palm Springs)by Janet Wilson and Ian JamesThere may be hope for finalizing a sweeping Colorado River drought contingency plan after all. Imperial Irrigation District officials announced at a special board meeting late Friday that the federal Bureau of Reclamation has agreed to their condition that the drought package include restoration of the Salton Sea. They said federal officials will write a strong […]
OPINION: We Can Plan For A ‘Leaner’ Colorado River As We Save The Salton Sea
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /The Desert Sun (Palm Springs)by Ted KowalskiOver the past five years, the seven Colorado River Basin states have been working to develop a series of drought contingency plans (DCPs) to safeguard water levels at Lake Mead. Responding to a 19-year drought, leaders throughout the basin are at last close to finalizing the agreements necessary to bolster conservation and safeguard water levels […]
Major Improvements For Colorado’s Drought Picture As Strong Snowpack Continues
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /Kiowa County Press (Eads, Colo.)by Chris SorensenThanks to a series of recent snow storms, drought conditions in Colorado have shown substantial improvements over the past month, including the past week, with extreme drought nearly disappearing from the state. A remaining sliver of exceptional drought – the worst category – in southwest Archuleta County disappeared in the latest report from the National […]
Voluntary Agreements Shared With State Water Board. Will They Replace Disputed Flow Plan?
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /The Modesto Beeby Ken CarlsonThe top state agencies that manage water and wildlife resources in California submitted a package of voluntary agreements with water districts to the State Water Resources Control Board on Friday, as an alternative to controversial flow requirements approved in December for the Tuolumne, Stanislaus and Merced rivers. The agreements, hammered out in the waning hours […]
California’s Largest Reservoir Shot Up 39 Feet In Elevation In February
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Andrea Mora /SF Gateby Amy GraffThe storms hitting California in February have left their mark on California’s largest and most important water reserve. Shasta Lake jumped 39 feet in elevation since February 1 and as of Tuesday it was at 85 percent of capacity and only 25 feet from its crest. Amid a wet winter, dramatic lake level rises have been common […]
‘Rivers In The Sky’ Are Why California Is Flooding
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /National Geographicby Alejandra BorundaPowerful rainstorms have battered Northern California this week. The culprit? Atmospheric rivers. The rains were born far away, deep in the tropical Pacific, where water evaporated from the warm ocean surface and fizzed into the atmosphere. The drenched air parcel flow then moved sinuously along, an “atmospheric river” winding its way toward land. When that […]