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Winter-flooded rice fields already provide essential habitat for migratory birds, but could they also provide benefits to help the state's salmon populations?

UCI, NASA scientists assess ice sheet with potential to raise global sea levels nearly 5 feet

Looking for fun and free activities to do with your kids at home? Check out the Department of Water Resources (DWR) education materials webpage for free educational activities

Fewer vehicles on the road, slowing economy lead to blue skies in Bay Area, China, Italy

Floods and other dangerous weather extremes are only getting more intense and frequent as our climate warms. Historically, we’ve been able to predict these by looking to the past. But a new study published Wednesday in Science Advances reveals past extreme events is no longer a reliable predictor.

Regulations could cost 85,000 jobs, cause $7 billion in farm losses, according to UC report.

The latest issue of San Francisco Estuary magazine features special coverage on the resiliency of watersheds.The issue includes a project to track salmon, steelhead, and sturgeon, and details on how integrated regional water management (IRWM) is keeping water flowing to Pajaro Valley farms.

California's Sierra Nevada picked up several feet of snow, part of a "Miracle March" weather pattern which provided some relief in the form of water-providing snowpack after a record-dry February.

State ’s Wastewater Treatment Plants May get Overwhelmed, Consumers may face in-home Plumbing Backups and Blockages. 

Tap water is more strictly regulated than the bottled water being hoarded, officials say.

For the past several years, California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act has been the talk, not only of the town and of the state, but also of the national and international groundwater and environmental policy community.

Chinook, coho and steelhead were once tremendously abundant in most of California’s major rivers and streams. As recently as the 1960s, salmon and steelhead were so plentiful in streams that horses would get spooked trying to cross.