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California Drought and Strengthening El Nino Accelerate Statewide Water Transition
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New infrastructure, laws, and practices help the state respond…
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Los Angeles Looks to Stormwater to Secure Water Sustainability
Second largest U.S. city confronts new era of water scarcity with innovations on a new scale.
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Federal Drought Policy Need Not Wait for Congress
Natural resources agencies have the authority to change practices on their own, conservation groups argue.
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California Drought Signals Fundamental Shift to New Water Conditions
Climate change models have long predicted a drying West. In California, the future has arrived.
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Sites Reservoir in Northern California Is 20th-Century Idea Trying to Fit the 21st
New surface water storage project would be largest in California since 1979.
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California Indian Tribe Pursues Rights to Groundwater
A court test of federal water law by the Agua Caliente Band of…
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One Way to Ease California Drought: Recycle Wastewater For Irrigation
Del Puerto Water District to buy a third of its water supply from Modesto and Turlock treatment plants.
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Why Asking ‘How Much Rain Will End the Drought?’ Is the Wrong Question
People need to be in the equation too, says Circle of Blue report Brett Walton.
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Oakland’s Water Treatment Plant Generates Its Own Energy and Then Some
Plant is at the center of a big move to also solve city’s solid waste problem.
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Oakland’s Web of Waters Shapes New Economy, Civic Energy
A nationally significant program of storm water management daylights streams, renovates a centerpiece lake, restores an estuary, and empowers a West Coast city.
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California Fire Danger Mounts in Sierra Nevada Forests
Bark beetles, water scarcity, and dying trees herald a region in ecological transition during the height of state's four-year drought.
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Slideshow: Faces of Tulare County’s Drinking Water Crisis
The Central Valley farming county has the highest number of dry wells in California.