From our dinner to our data centers, everything has a water footprint. Find out more about how much water it takes to grow our food or charge our cars with this infographic.
Continue readingCoping With Weather Whiplash – Improving S2S Precipitation Forecasting
Guest Post by Jeanine Jones, Interstate Resources Manager, California Department of Water Resources Water Year 2023 was notable for ending the 2020 – 2022 drought, California’s driest consecutive three-year period, with one of the state’s snowiest years. This rapid change in water supply conditions was not predicted by the National Weather Service (NWS), reflecting the […]
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Developing Renewable Energy While Protecting the Farms That Grow Our Food
On its web site, The USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) says it conducts hundreds of surveys every year and prepares reports covering virtually every aspect of U.S. agriculture. The agency reports the facts on American agriculture, “…that are needed by people working in and depending upon U.S. agriculture.”
Continue readingThere is broad consensus on the need to capture more water when its raining
One failure is we’re not capturing and storing nearly as much floodwater as we should.
Continue readingOur Food Supply at Risk: White Paper on the Importance of Alfalfa Production in the American West
Our Food Supply at Risk: White Paper on the Importance of Alfalfa Production in the American West With drought conditions continuing to blanket the Western U.S., and farmers struggling to find adequate water supplies, competing interests are pressuring the federal government to cut the water supply farmers are using to grow our food, including alfalfa, […]
Abandoning Established Water Law Does Nothing to Produce or Save One Drop of Water and Puts Our Food Supply at Risk
Abandoning Established Water Law Does Nothing to Produce or Save One Drop of Water and Puts Our Food Supply at Risk
Guest Blog: CA water board readopts precedent-setting groundwater regs
Family farmers and ranchers in Siskiyou County in far-northern California will continue to face unprecedented groundwater and surface water curtailments this summer and next if the drought continues.
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