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June 20, 2024

Potential Relief for the Colorado River’s Near Future

Precipitation could boost the iconic river’s flow in the next couple of decades despite the deleterious effects of warming temperatures due to climate change.

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April 2, 2024

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.

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April 1, 2024

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.

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March 28, 2024

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.

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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 22, 2024

Snowstorm Coats the Rockies

A potent storm pushed snowpack levels above normal across Colorado.

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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

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. 

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March 6, 2024

California Water Department Completes First Phase of Innovative Groundwater Mapping Program

State-of-the-art helicopter-based technology and local coordination improve management of our underground water supply.