Climate change

In the rural towns around Visalia, drought is a perpetual plight and wells are going dry.

Despite a drought and below-normal reservoir levels, communities remain split on permanent outdoor watering restrictions.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is offering $500,000 for a better tool to measure how much water snowflakes contain.

Lake Mead and Lake Powell could reach water levels low enough to halt hydropower production.

With winter underway, learn more about the science behind ice and snow.

Drought in the West persists, but the increase in snowpack will likely allow for a significant recovery in reservoirs and soil moisture.

One natural disaster often leads to another and in California these consecutive events are leading to human disasters.

The snowpack is crucial to the West’s water supply, ecosystems and economy. But climate change threatens to make the region’s snowpack thinner and less reliable. We talk to a leading snowpack researcher about how scientists are analyzing the past, present and future of the West’s snow.

Water Desk Director Mitch Tobin talks to Cynthia Koehler, director of the Water Now Alliance, about the many challenges facing water providers and the solutions they are pursuing to make water systems more resilient and sustainable.

A state group examining water speculation identified eight ideas to stop water hoarding, but failed to provide legislative recommendations.