reservoirs

A record-baking heat wave is scalding California, with major consequences for the state’s most important reservoir: its snowpack. Providing about a third of the state’s water supply, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is a vital source of spring and summer runoff that refills reservoirs when the state needs the water most.

“Water Politics,” a new book by Fresno State political science professor Tom Holyoke, explores the competing pressures that have resulted in a complicated, convoluted water policy that is constantly being disputed.

The Sierra Nevada snowpack is so big this year that water managers are worried that one warm storm or a couple warm days could inundate reservoirs in the…

There are over 1,400 dams and water diversion structures throughout California. Most of the time, we don’t pay much attention to them – they do their job…

Last summer the Rough Fire grew so large that fire crews from around the world came to the Sierra Nevada east of Fresno to fight the blaze. Today the area…

Earlier this month an op-ed ran in the LA Times with a headline suggesting that California will run out of water in a year. Valley Public Radio’s Ezra…