Scientists using seismic data tracked groundwater levels beneath the L.A. area. They found heavy rains in 2023 boosted shallow waters, but deep aquifers remain depleted.

AFTER ABUNDANT RAINFALL and moderate snowfall this year in the northern half of the state, California’s largest reservoirs ...

Water company Cadiz tapped the engineering firm to oversee construction of a massive groundwater bank that will supply ...

The researchers pinpointed hot spots—including cities, beaches, and aquifers—with greater exposure to rising seas in coming decades." A separate study recently suggested that, by 2050, some of ...

As climate change brings more rain than snow, building more reservoirs would reduce state’s dependence on snowpacks.

Scientists have uncovered dramatic shifts in California’s coastal landscape, revealing areas that are either sinking or ...

More than a dozen atmospheric rivers dumped rainfall on California in 2023 but replenished only 25 percent of the water lost from aquifers since 2006.

Some parts of California's Central Valley, for example, can see as much as eight inches of subsidence each year; this is influenced by groundwater fluctuations. Aquifers in Chula Vista (in San ...

Those rains, combined with torrential rainfall in Southern California from Hurricane Hilary in August 2023, nearly refilled surface reservoirs and shallow aquifers depleted by decades of drought ...

In 2023, a parade of atmospheric rivers brought months of heavy precipitation to much of California, filling reservoirs and raising snowpack far above average levels. This flood of water was a ...

Learn how this Utah greenhouse operation’s unique geology allows it to both heat its greenhouses and irrigate its crops.