The Washington Post invited the Center's Richard Howittand Jay Lund to bust some popular misperceptions about California's drought. See if your beliefs hold water under their scrutiny: http://wapo.st/Z0Oecw
Photo: Shasta Lake on Aug. 25, 2014 looking west from Pit River Bridge. Source: Kelly M. Grow/California Department of Water Resources
Associated Press (June 3, 2014) — Peter Moyle comments on a new study that suggests steelhead trout can have trouble using the Earth's magnetic field to navigate if they were raised in a hatchery, where the field can be distorted by iron pipes.
NPR, All Things Considered (June 9, 2014) — Economist Richard Howitt, at the University of California, Davis, says irrigation water should flow more freely to the places where it's needed most, he says.
KQED (June 15, 2014) — As talk turns to whether California’s drought will stretch into a fourth year, two co-founders of the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis - Jeffrey Mount and Jay Lund - decided to handicap it. Their conclusion: don’t bet on wet.
The Sacramento Bee (June 15, 2014) — The Salton Sea has been a place more notorious for beauty forsaken than for opportunities. Jay Lund, of the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, says that “three flows are important for the Salton Sea: water, wildfowl and money.”
KPCC, Los Angeles (June 16, 2014) — UC Davis' Jay Lund and Jeffrey Mount crunch 106 years of state designations to find it doesn't look good: In all, there’s a 71 percent chance that next year will be Below Normal or drier and only a 29 percent chance of experiencing an Above Normal or Wet year.
ClimateProgress.org (June 18, 2014) — California officials are evacuating fish from two hatcheries into state waterways in the hopes of avoiding “catastrophic” fish losses from potentially lethal water temperatures.
USA Today (June 19, 2014) — Story on California's high temperatures and drought cite May 19 Center for Watershed Sciences forecast that the drought would result in the fallowing of 410,000 acres, the loss of 14,500 jobs and cost the industry $1.7 billion in the Central Valley, the state's most productive agricultural region.
San Jose Mercury News (June 21, 2014) — The Center's Theodore Grantham leads a Mercury News special on the drought with his new research findings on the state's water demands.
San Jose Mercury News (June 23, 2014) — Despite the third year of serious drought, almost no communities have imposed mandatory rationing -- meaning water budgets, fines for overuse and water cops writing tickets for people overwatering lawns or hosing down driveways.
