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More Moisture is Headed to Utah, the West. Will It Help Lake Powell?

March 14, 2023/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Noah Harrel /Deseret Newsby Amy Joi O’Donoghue

Lake Powell is currently close to 180 feet below full pool and coming off a summer last year where several boat ramps were closed and owners were advised to retrieve their houseboats from the docks.

Releases from a couple of upstream reservoirs, including Flaming Gorge, were made last summer to help the nation’s second largest reservoir and its Glen Canyon Dam, which provides power generation to Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and Nebraska.

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Did Winter Storms Replenish California’s Depleted Groundwater Supplies? Here’s What Data Shows.

February 21, 2023/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Noah Harrel /Napa Valley Registerby Jack Lee

Winter storms have filled California’s reservoirs and built up a colossal Sierra snowpack that’s nearly twice its normal size for this time of year. But years of dry conditions have created problems far beneath the Earth’s surface that aren’t as easily addressed.

Groundwater — found in underground layers containing sand, soil and rock — is crucial for drinking water and sustaining farms.

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CA’s Depleting Groundwater in Key Agricultural Region Could Be a Warning Sign for AZ

January 24, 2023/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Noah Harrel /KJZZby Greg Hahne

A recent report showed that there is not enough groundwater in a sub-basin surrounding Buckeye to provide the area with a 100-year supply.

That could be a trend seen across the West as a study from ASU found that California’s megadrought has excellent groundwater depletion.

California’s Central Valley covers 20,000 square miles and is a vast agricultural region with a value of approximately $17 billion per year in crops.

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How Sierra Nevada Record Snowpack Will Impact California Drought

January 23, 2023/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Noah Harrel /Newsweekby Jess Thomson

The snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains, which has continued to increase throughout January as a result of storms battering much of the state since the New Year, might help California combat its ongoing drought.

As of January 20, the Sierra snowpack state-wide was at 240 percent of the average for this time of year. The South Sierra stations, located between the San Joaquin and Mono counties through to Kern county, reported snowpacks at 283 percent of the January 20 average.

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Opinion: Drought Impacts an Entire Agricultural Ecosystem

November 17, 2022/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Ed Joyce /Ag Alertby Tim Johnson

This third year of extreme drought is taking a devastating toll on agriculture in California. We see pictures of orchards being removed, dry canals and fields that should be a verdant green now a sunburned brown. The impacts on the farm are easy to see. The effects on our communities and on the wildlife that depend on agricultural lands in production are no less real, even if they are harder to observe.

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International Water Researcher Highlights Colorado Basin’s “Disappearing” Groundwater

November 7, 2022/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Ed Joyce /The Colorado Sunby Chris Outcalt

For the past 20 years, two small satellites orbiting 250 miles above Earth have tracked a stark reality about the nation’s groundwater supplies, including across the parched Colorado River Basin: The water underground is vanishing. The NASA satellites began gathering data in 2002. Since then, Colorado River Basin groundwater has depleted much faster than water storage in the nation’s two largest reservoirs, according to research that underscores concerns about the increasingly tight water supply in the drought-stricken West.

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California Ranch Works to Replenish Groundwater Supplies

October 25, 2022/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Gayle Falkenthal /Yale Climate Connectionsby YCC Team

California farms grow about a quarter of U.S. food, and that takes a lot of water. Many farmers rely on water pumped from the ground. But over time, pumping is depleting the aquifers. And severe droughts are making the problem worse.

“Eventually, you’re going to run out of water,” says Don Cameron, vice president and general manager of Terranova Ranch in California’s Central Valley.

To help protect the ranch, he’s been working for years to replenish groundwater supplies.

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As Drought Persists, Crucial Groundwater Supplies Dwindle

October 13, 2022/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Gayle Falkenthal /Capitol Weeklyby Liam Gravvat

More than 60% of California’s groundwater wells are operating at below-normal levels, endangering much of the Golden State’s population that relies on the precious resource.

Although relatively unknown to many Californians, who see water supply in terms of rivers, streams and reservoirs, groundwater is a hugely vital source that is largely invisible.

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A California City’s Water Supply is Expected to Run Out in Two Months

October 10, 2022/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Gayle Falkenthal /Washington Postby Joshua Partlow

The residents of this sun-scorched city feel California’s endless drought when the dust lifts off the brown hills and flings grit into their living rooms. They see it when they drive past almond trees being ripped from the ground for lack of water and the new blinking sign at the corner of Elm and Cherry warning: “No watering front yard lawns.”

The fire chief noticed it when he tested hydrants in August — a rare occurrence as Coalinga desperately seeks to conserve water — and the first one shot out a foot-long block of compacted dirt. The second one ejected a can of Axe body spray.

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Sonoma County Bans Drilling of New Water Wells for 6 Months Amid California Drought

October 7, 2022/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Chelsea Campos /Local News Mattersby Alastair Bland

In a move that activists hope could shift how water regulators statewide manage dwindling groundwater basins, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors this week banned the drilling of all new wells for six months countywide while they draft a set of longer-lasting rules on using groundwater.

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