Drought

Human remains were found again at Lake Mead, marking the third such discovery since May as water levels within the reservoir continue to recede.

Lake Mead, the Colorado River dam near Las Vegas that is the nation’s largest reservoir, could become a “dead pool” if its level falls another 150 feet, placing its surface above the intakes for the Hoover Dam’s power generators.

Lake Tahoe has experienced unusual snow three times this June — not enough to impact the ongoing severe California drought, but enough to provoke amazement among travelers and curiosity from meteorologists.

The La Niña conditions that have contributed to the ongoing drought in the southwest United States is likely to continue into a third year, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

More than six million California residents have been hit with “unprecedented” water restrictions on Wednesday as the state manages the worst drought in recorded history. 

The State of California is about to begin removing the first of four dams on the Klamath River — despite an extreme drought and a looming electricity generation crisis — to improve habitat for migratory salmon and satisfy Native American groups.

Farmers in the east of Germany are warning of widespread crop failures due to a lack of rainfall in the region.

The government of Santiago, the capital of Chile, announced on Monday plans to force the city’s roughly 8 million residents to ration water because a decade-plus regional drought has nearly depleted Santiago’s water supply, the website of the Chilean state-run Radio Pauta reported on Tuesday.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday that the state had reached broad agreement with rural water districts on a voluntary framework for conserving water in the Central Valley, potentially bringing years of disputes to a conclusion.

California Governor Gavin Newsom made no mention of the state’s ongoing drought in his annual “State of the State” address on Tuesday evening, ignoring water issues that critics say have become an urgent necessity after years of neglect.

The California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) has adopted water restrictions that include potential fines of $500, warning that the state is not free from a two-year drought despite heavy rains and record-setting snowfall in December.

A winter snowstorm this weekend dumped nearly 40 inches of snow on the Sierra Nevada mountains from Sunday into Monday, breaking the record for snowfall in December, and possibly signaling relief in California’s two-year-old drought.

California is likely to impose new urban water restrictions in the coming months as the ongoing drought continues to worsen, according to officials. Though there were a few small storms earlier in the fall, and there is flooding in the

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission voted Tuesday to declare a water shortage emergency amid a crushing drought in the state that threatens water supplies throughout the region, slapping a 5% surcharge on water users in the city.

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which represents six water agencies in densely-populated Southern California, declared a drought emergency Tuesday and urged residents to conserve water, as future conservation measures loom.

California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom’s embrace of “climate change” as an existential threat has led to policies that destroy farms in a state that feeds more Americans than any other.

Several states are looking at Christmas tree shortages ahead of this year’s holiday season, according to reports.

An Afghan woman told Agence France-Presse (AFP) in a report published Tuesday her husband recently sold their two young daughters — one just 18 months old — into marriage because their family is starving and desperately needed the money.

Far-left NBC News is spreading the blatant lie that building more homes in California will cause more droughts and wildfires.

The wildfires raging in the western United States are not caused by climate change but by “eco-imperialists” who oppose forest management that could prevent natural seasonal fires from becoming massive and destructive wildfires, experts said Thursday on a call with reporters.

San Diego launched a project on Friday to purify sewage water and turn it into potable drinking water, boosting the city’s water independence as a crippling drought grips California.

Embattled California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday that the state could face mandatory water restrictions in six weeks — after the recall election is over.

Drought and extremely low water levels in the Lake Oroville reservoir have forced authorities in California to shut down the state’s most important hydroelectric power plant, amid intense summer heat and peak electricity demand.

As much of the American West faces widespread droughts, farmers and ranchers in central Arizona bear the brunt. They face crop losses and thinner cows as irrigation canals dry.

Farmers struggling in the California drought are shaking almonds off their trees to save the trees themselves, according to Victor Davis Hanson, a farmer and conservative commentator.

Authorities are telling Californians to conserve electricity Thursday evening, as a heat wave that coincides with a severe drought that has limited the availability of hydroelectric power to the state.

A 19th-century Mexican church has been unearthed from the waters of a central Mexican lake after being submerged for more than 40 years.

A giant sequoia tree in California is still smoldering from a wildfire that began in August 2020, according to researchers.

California is on the verge of another drought, as the dry winter has led to alarmingly low water levels in Lake Oroville, one of the most important dams in the state.

California officials are warning that drought could loom in the state’s future after the annual April 1 measurement showed that the depth of the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains is only 59% of the average — the second straight dry year.

The State of California faces another potential drought, as state and federal authorities have warned water users that cuts are imminent and that they should implement conservation measures.

Months of drought in southern and eastern China have left more than 300,000 people with drinking water shortages, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Sunday.

China shut down almost half of the water flow through its southernmost dam on the Mekong River on December 31, reducing water levels downstream by enough for a U.S.-funded satellite monitoring system to notice.

Torrential rains and heavy flooding, hard on the heels of widespread drought and infestations of locusts and worms, have left China with rising consumer prices and troubling signs of a food shortage.

Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher has written a special opening prayer for the “Mass for Rain” as part of a prayer campaign to beg God for rainfall.

The Trump administration on Thursday ordered the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to freeze between $2 billion and $4 billion in aid authorized by Congress during the 2018 and 2019 fiscal years.

California’s snowpack is officially 162% higher than average, the fourth-highest ever recorded, after state officials performed the annual measurement this week in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

“Republic of Thirst” is a three-part series made possible by a generous fellowship from the Robert Novak Foundation. Part I of examined the debate over how California’s scarce water resources should be allocated. Part III will examine whether those resources can

Outgoing California Governor Jerry Brown will not be in office to see his “twin tunnels” project completed — if it is ever begun at all — after the state’s Department of Water Resources withdrew a key certification last Friday.

Outgoing California Governor Jerry Brown has reached a deal with U.S. House Republican leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to extend the 2016 Water Infrastructure for Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act, which would provide more water to farmers and fund water storage in the state, to 2021.