8 Simple Water Savings Tips to Share With Family Members During the Holidays
As the holiday season nears and you prepare for festivities, now is a good time to consider simple habits to reduce water consumption around the home. Whether you’ve finalized the holiday menu or are preparing to order-in, here are eight simple conservation tips to start and share with friends and family: In the […]
Planting in a Drought: Here’s Three Simple Steps to Fall Planting
Don’t hang your gardening gloves up quite yet! Fall is the ideal time in California to plant drought-resilient plants and trees that will grow to provide beauty, shade and enjoyment for years to come. Why Fall? When the soil is warm and air temperatures are mild, plants placed now will spend time developing a larger […]
Rain is Here but Another Dry Winter Predicted: It’s Time to Save Water
With rain headed our way, now is the time to turn off sprinklers and let nature do the watering. While this rain is a welcome change, drier than normal conditions are likely here to stay this winter. The California Department of Water Resources estimates we need 140 percent of average precipitation to get our reservoir […]
Helping Your Trees Survive the Drought
As temperatures rise amid drought conditions in California, it’s important to remember to take care of one of the most valuable resources in our neighborhoods — our trees. Homeowners can neglect watering their trees when attempting to conserve water because they’re worried about water waste. Because of this, trees that are dependent on regular watering […]
Drought + Heat = Increased Impacts
***This is part 5 in a series of articles DWR is publishing about California’s 2021 water year and dry conditions. As we approach the official start to summer, California and much of the Southwest are experiencing a heatwave that will set new temperature records in some areas. Warm temperatures are affecting drought impacts. Runoff this […]
A Dry Wrap-Up to the Wet Season
The first half of Water Year 2021 is over, and California’s wet season is almost finished. The first six months of the water year rank as the fourth driest of record based on statewide precipitation. Water Year 2020 was dry in the northern two-thirds of the state. The cumulative effects of these dry conditions are […]
Statewide Snowpack Well Below Normal as Wet Season Winds Down
The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today conducted the fourth snow survey at the Phillips Station snow course. The manual survey recorded 49.5 inches of snow depth and a snow water equivalent (SWE) of 21 inches, which is 83 percent of average for this location. The SWE measures the amount of water contained in the snowpack and […]
Water Year 2021: The Suspense Continues
By Jeanine Jones, DWR Interstate Resources Manager ***This is part 3 in a series of articles DWR is publishing about California’s 2021 water year and dry conditions. California’s hydrologic conditions remain dry as February draws to a close. Although late January storms improved a then-dismal snowpack, statewide snowpack remains at about two-thirds of average for […]
Water Year 2021: How Are We Doing?
We are now past the halfway mark in California’s normally wettest winter months, and the wet season to date has been anything but. Most of the state has received less than half of its average annual precipitation to date.
Will This Winter Be Wet or Dry? DWR Leads Innovative Effort to Advance Forecasting Research
California’s 2020 Water Year, which ran from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30, emphasized the State’s extreme weather swings, with drenching rains in the southern part of the state and dry conditions in the north. So far, California’s fall and
