The list of 21 basins and sub-basins suffer from what the state deems “critical overdraft,” a condition in which significantly more water has been taken out of a basin than has been put in.

California and the other Colorado River Basin states are at odds over how to halt the precipitous decline of Lake Mead. The impasse reflects a century of failure to take a basic step left undone ...

California is at a groundwater management crossroads as legal loopholes threaten to undo the state’s progress toward ...

The Colorado River Basin which supplies water to seven U.S. states is facing "severe water shortages," scientists warn.

Over-pumping groundwater is causing California's San Joaquin Valley to sink, but monitoring these basins from space could help improve management. By Tatyana Woodall Published Apr 21, 2022 5:00 PM EDT ...

The California Department of Water Resources announced sustainability plans for 12 critically overdrafted groundwater basins in the Central Valley, including the one in Kern County. 23ABC's ...

Farmers in California's drought-plagued Central Valley have big plans for the next year of heavy rains. They want to use that water to replenish depleted aquifers, akin to depositing water in a bank.

Katherine Dlubac, Ph.D., directs the aerial survey program for the California Department of Water Resources. She says the data can help accelerate projects designed to recharge groundwater basins.

California water experts like Mountjoy, ... "It takes a lot of money to excavate a basin and build the structures to divert water off the system," said Mark Larsen, ...

Most indicators point to a drier future for California, leaving even less water for irrigation. A recent study by the non-profit Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) shows that by 2040, annual ...

For the first time since 2006, the state’s major water conveyance system will deliver all the water it has been asked to supply. By Soumya Karlamangla California’s San Luis Reservoir was at 99 ...

California’s groundwater basins combined can hold more than 566 times as much water with a storage capacity of 850 million to 1.3 billion acre-feet, according to the California Department of ...