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March 25, 2024

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.

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March 25, 2024

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? 

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March 24, 2024

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.

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March 22, 2024

Snowstorm Coats the Rockies

A potent storm pushed snowpack levels above normal across Colorado.

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March 22, 2024

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.

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March 21, 2024

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.

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March 21, 2024

World Water Day: Water for Peace

This year’s theme, “Water for Peace,” encourages the world to focus not only on the conflicts, but also on how water can be at the center of peacebuilding.

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March 20, 2024

Webinar: Accessing Data for World's Water with NASA's SWOT Mission

Learn how to discover, access, and use Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission data and how these data could lead to new, innovative science and applications in the world of water.

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March 20, 2024

US, Germany Partnering on Mission to Track Earth’s Water Movement

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment-Continuity mission will extend a decades-long record of following shifting water masses using gravity measurements.

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March 18, 2024

What’s Worse Than a Flood? A Debris Flow

While flood flows are dominated by water, debris flows are a slurry of a lot of things, including boulders.