
Connecting Water Managers to NASA Earth Data
WWAO looks ahead to new Earth data and new relationships with decision makers.

Average is Awesome: California Happy With Latest Snowpack Survey
After years of swinging extremes, state snowpack is at rare average of 110%, setting up good water savings account for year ahead.

Improving Seasonal Water Predictions Using a Machine-Learning River Forecast System
A WWAO collaboration has published a new paper on how to use next-generation satellite snow data to improve seasonal water supply forecasts using machine learning.

California Mountains Face Weather Whiplash
Last month’s massive snowstorm in the Sierra Nevada followed a dry start to winter. Such extremes in precipitation may become the norm.

How Business and Government Might Solve the Freshwater Crisis Together
Does the public sector need the private sector’s help to address the freshwater crisis?

Field-Scale Crop Water Consumption Points to Potential Water Savings in Agriculture
Using remote-sensing data and machine learning, a team from NASA and beyond finds that switching to lower-intensity crops can reduce water consumption in California’s Central Valley by 93%, but this requires adopting uncommon crop types.

California Zombie Lake Turned Farmland to Water. Is it now Gone for Good?
Resurrected for the first time in decades by an epic deluge of winter rain and snow, by spring the lake covered more than 100,000 acres, stretching over cotton, tomato and pistachio fields and miles of roads.

Snowstorm Coats the Rockies
A potent storm pushed snowpack levels above normal across Colorado.

Storms Boost Forecasted California Water Supply
California's State Water Project has been focused on maximizing the capture and storage of water from this winter’s storms.

NASA Sees Spike in 2023 Sea Levels Due to El Niño
A long-term sea level dataset shows ocean surface heights continuing to rise at faster and faster rates over decades of observations.