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.
The Los Angelos Times (October 5, 2014) - A few years ago a group of researchers used computer modeling to put California through a nightmare scenario: Seven decades of unrelenting mega-drought similar to those that dried out the state in past millennia.
The Daily Democrat (October 22, 22014) - Scientists have identified 181 California dams that may need to increase water flows to protect native fish downstream. The screening tool developed by the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis to select "high-priority" dams may be particularly useful during drought years amid competing demands for water.
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.
San Francisco Chronicle (August 8, 2014) - As cities brace for rationing and many California farmers yank out trees and fallow land for crops, growers and dairy farmers on 240,000 acres along the San Joaquin River near Los Banos are comparatively awash in water.
The Huffington Post (August 9, 2014) - Some overindulged their zucchini patch. Others didn't bother with that dripping kitchen sink. But now every Monday night in this drought-stricken beach town, dozens of residents who violated their strict rations take a seat at Water School, hoping to get hundreds of thousands of dollars in distressing penalties waived. University of California, Davis, professor Jay Lund, who directs the Center for Watershed Sciences, laughed when he heard about Santa Cruz's approach, but he said it might catch on.
CBS, San Francisco (August, 19, 2014) - California’s drought may lead to the extinction of a tiny fish holding onto dwindling habitat in Tuolumne County. Researchers with the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences last week set out to find the Red Hills roach, a minnow-like fish that lives in creeks and spring-fed pools.
The Sacramento Bee (August 23, 2014) - On average, rain and snow storms drop about 200 million acre-feet of water on California each year – 65 trillion gallons of the life-giving liquid.
