A map of the at-risk drinking water systems shows that they are impacted throughout the state, with some of the highest concentrations of impacted systems in Tulare, Kern and Los Angeles Counties.

A glass fills with tap water. A Newsweek map shows where millions of California residents will have to pay water bill increases from as early as this summer.

California officials have joined a legal effort to restore water to the Kern River after an abrupt shutoff of water dried up the river and killed thousands of fish in Bakersfield.

Newsom warns that California’s water system may be ill-prepared to cope with hotter, drier future. Sharon Udasin. Tue, June 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM UTC. 2 min read. ... Site Map; Follow us on.

The California Drought Monitor map released Jan. 23, 2025. About 11 percent of California is in extreme drought. Thirty-three percent of the state, including northern Los Angeles County, is in ...

Letitia Grenier, Public Policy Institute of California: As far as we can tell, there's no relationship between the fires in Southern California and leaving some water in the rivers for delta smelt ...

California’s water supplies are doled out in a way that can seem haphazard. The rules that determine who receives how much water date back more than a century, and form a confusing patchwork ...

California will impose permanent water restrictions for the first time in history after the state’s Water Resources Control Board approved a long-debated policy. The policy, dubbed Making ...

In California, toilet or shower wastewater will no longer just be dumped into the Pacific Ocean or used for farmland. Now, it’ll be recycled into drinking water.