National Geographic - Online (September 17, 2014) - Despite California's reputation as an environmental policy leader, its regulation of groundwater extraction has long been among the weakest in the nation.
San Jose Mercury News - Online (October 24, 2014) - The 14,000-acre valley in Colusa County is the proposed location of Sites Reservoir, a project that's been talked about in California since Dwight Eisenhower was president.
KXTV-TV - Online (October 17, 2014) - "Complete drought recovery in California this winter is highly unlikely," NOAA's Climate Prediction Center Interim Director Mike Halpert said. "While we're predicting at least a two in three chance that winter precipitation will be near or above normal throughout the state, with such widespread, extreme deficits, recovery will be slow."
Sacramento Bee - Online (October 22, 2014) - A screening of California’s more than 1,400 dams has found that 181 dams are potentially imperiling native fish downstream.
KNTV-TV - Online (November 4, 2014) - California’s well-chronicled water crisis has just about everyone, from academics to administrators, brainstorming over a possible solution.
AZ Central (October 13, 2014) - Researchers at the University of California, Davis Center for Watershed Sciences constructed a computer model of the consequences of seven decades of drought in California.
Circle of Blue (November 3, 2014) - When Californians close the musty drapes of the voting booth on Tuesday, they will face a $US 7.5 billion question: Should the perpetually water-worried state, in the midst of a record drought, use its taxing authority to pay for another set of state-funded water projects?
Bloomberg News - Online (August 1, 2014) - “We are running down our bank account,” said Richard Howitt, professor emeritus of agricultural and resource economics with the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California at Davis.
Houston Chronicle - Online (August 15, 2014) - ...proposal to drill two 35-mile-long, freeway-size water tunnels beneath the Northern California delta. Opponents wanted assurances that nothing in the bond package would go to pay for the tunnels.
NewsMax - Online (August 12, 2014) - In the long term, California will probably move away from commodity crops produced in bulk elsewhere to high-value products that make more money for the water used, said Richard Howitt, a farm economist at the University of California at Davis.
