…Minimal snowpack and rainfall during the 2014 winter resulted in reduced water deliveries to the irrigation districts. For many Klamath Basin farmers, this water reduction prevented the planting of normal…
Governor Brown Issues Executive Order to Redouble State Drought Actions
…say that reservoirs, rainfall totals and the snowpack remain critically low. Current electronic readings show the snowpack’s statewide water content at just 16 percent of average. In the order, Governor…
Snow Survey Finds Slightly Increased Water Content
Storms are lightly blanketing the Sierra with fresh snow, but Department of Water Resources (DWR) snow surveyors today reported that snowpack water content remains far below what will be needed…
Federal Drought Aid Coming to California; Long Term Solution Sought
…of its driest years in a century. Right now, almost 99 percent of California is drier than normal — and the winter snowpack that provides much of your water far…
Costa Introduces Drought Relief Legislation
…the heart of my district’s economy and impacts every family that calls the Valley home,” said Costa. “When I look at these devastating weather and snowpack reports, I see the…
FID Facilitates Emergency Banking To Provide Dry-Year Water For Small Valley Cities, Towns
…drought conditions, a San Joaquin River watershed snowpack that is a fraction of what it should be at this time of year and what now appears to be an increasingly-likely…
DWR Drops State Water Project Allocation to Zero, Seeks to Preserve Remaining Supplies
…reservoirs now is lower than at this time in 1977, one of the two previous driest water years on record. Yesterday’s Sierra snow survey found the snowpack’s statewide water content…
Breaking News: Governor Makes Official Drought Declaration
…and reservoirs are below their record lows. Manual and electronic readings record the snowpack’s statewide water content at about 20 percent of normal average for this time of year. The…
Year’s First National Water Forecast
…the Continental Divide and will continue to monitor, forecast and update water supplies for the next six months. Monitoring snowpack of 13 western states, the center’s mission is to help…
California Farms and Consumers in Jeopardy
…the year. This survey confirms the severity of the water crisis. Snowpack measurements taken by DWR revealed a bleak outlook for farmers and other water dependent industries as well as…
Secretary for Natural Resources Statement on Water Issues
Secretary for Natural Resources Statement on Record Low Snowpack, Need for Conservation, and Completion of Bay Delta Conservation Plan SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Secretary for Natural Resources John Laird today issued…
Snow Survey Shows Lowest Level Recorded
…Sierra Nevada snow survey of this winter, and found the snowpack is at just 20 percent of average for the date. That is the lowest percentage ever recorded, although January…
Snow Survey Today
…more. Click to Open or Download Audio Report This survey’s results likely will be far different than last winter’s initial readings which showed water content in the snowpack at 134…
Low Snowpack Level is Another Problem
We know our farmers can’t grow food without water and the low snowpack level is another problem on the water front. But it’s not just farmers who rely on that…