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From the Ground The average decline in water levels across the entire Ogallala Aquifer, which spans eight plains states and is a key source of irrigation water, measured 4.3 meters (14.2 feet), from 1950 to 2011, according to new figures from the U.S. Geological Survey. Changes in the water table ranged from an increase of [...]
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A new study says that cross-border evaporation can be added to the list of supply and policy problems that water and land managers in the arid Southwest US. should ponder.
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The world must improve land and water management in order to combat hunger, according to the International Food Policy Research Institute, Bloomberg News reported. The Institute released its annual Global Hunger Index yesterday, which was topped by Burundi, Eritrea and Haiti. A record loss of sea ice in the Arctic is being mirrored by an [...]
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A first-of-its-kind space mission shows dips in groundwater supplies globally.
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Anyone who pays attention to water in California knows that the state is just getting over (we hope) a serious three-year drought.
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As the state recovers from a three-year drought and copes with a deteriorating water infrastructure, the nation’s food supply just got a boost.
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Thus concludes a new comprehensive assessment of the impacts of the drought on Central Valley unemployment.
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California is one of the only states in the United States with almost completely unregulated groundwater use.
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Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar came to California on Sunday to hear firsthand about California’s drought.
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Here is a short post, with two Water Numbers, and a request for real information if readers have it.
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In a 800-page report federal officials issued a dire prediction for California’s salmon — they’re just about out of water.
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Farmers south of California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta can expect to receive about 10 percent of their federally allocated water this spring
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Posted on Sunday, July 03, 2011
Representative Jim Costa and the California Drought