Yahoo (July 21,2014) — Over 80 percent of California is now in extreme or exceptional drought. CNBC's Jane Wells reports UC Davis predicts this will cost the state $2.2 billion and over 17,000 jobs.
San Jose Mercury News (July 23, 2014) — Few local water agencies have forced customers to cut their water use amid the ongoing drought, but a new poll shows a large majority of Californians support mandates to turn off the tap.
CNBC (July 31, 2014) — Suffering in its third year of drought, more than 58 percent of the state is currently in "exceptional drought" stage, the most extreme category, indicates widespread crop and pasture losses and shortages of water in reservoirs, streams and wells.
Several Center for Watershed Sciences researchers are presenting at this week's Bay-Delta Science Conference in Sacramento. On Wednesday, ecologist John Durand, fish biology professor Peter Moyle and others are scheduled to present their latest findings on ecosystems in the north Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and Suisun Marsh.
On Wednesday, Nov. 12, the John Muir Institute of the Environment (JMIE) will host a free screening of "Becoming California," a new documentary about environmental change and reconciliation.
UC Davis water scientists are helping to shape a comprehensive groundwater management system for California, designed to halt the pump-as-you-please approach that’s sucking wells dry during the drought.
The Los Angeles Times on Sunday led a page-one story with the Center's 2010 study of a synthesized 72-year California drought. Scientists used their CALVIN model to see how the state could respond to such an extreme drought using water trading and best-case estimates of costs and effects on water operations and demands.
The Center is blessed with several researchers and instructors who double as photographers. Come see their work on display through Oct. 15 at the UC Davis Buehler Alumni Center art gallery.
