blog post New Laws on Drought, Forests, and Safe Drinking Water By Henry McCann, Caitrin Chappelle Oct 9, 2018 The recent legislative session made progress on urban drought management, forest health, and safe drinking water.
blog post 3 Things to Know about California Droughts By Alvar Escriva-Bou Apr 10, 2018 Defining when a drought begins or ends isn’t simple. Here are three things about droughts that every Californian should know.
blog post Drought Watch: California as a Testing Ground By Ellen Hanak Oct 15, 2014 At an international consortium on water policy research, PPIC’s Ellen Hanak talked about lessons from California for other regions of the world.
blog post There’s Always Drought Somewhere in the West By Jeffrey Mount, Jelena Jezdimirovic Feb 4, 2016 A time-lapse look at western drought in the past decade.
blog post Drought Watch: Saving the Fish By Jeffrey Mount Feb 26, 2014 This is part of a continuing series on the impact of the drought. In a recent California WaterBlog post, Peter Moyle of the University of California, Davis—a frequent collaborator on PPIC projects—highlights an issue not much discussed in the context of this drought: we ignore fish and wildlife at our peril.
blog post Drought Watch: It’s the Heat and the Humidity By Jeffrey Mount Nov 25, 2014 This drought is so challenging because it has been very warm. Recent summaries from the National Climatic Data Center reveal that the 2014 water year was one of California’s warmest.
blog post Drought Watch: Our Thirsty Lawns By Ellen Hanak, Jeffrey Mount, Caitrin Chappelle Jul 18, 2014 This is part of a continuing series on the impact of the drought. The unprecedented restrictions on outdoor water use that the state enacted this week send a message that Californians need to conserve more water. But we can do more to move toward sustainable consumption.
blog post Making Federal Farm Support Drought-Smart By Ellen Hanak Mar 29, 2016 The White House has released a plan to better coordinate federal drought management at the basin scale. Improving US Department of Agriculture farm programs will be key.
blog post Video: Reforming Federal Drought Management By Ellen Hanak Feb 9, 2016 As California and much of the American West copes with severe drought, an expert panel discussed how the federal government can help states prepare for drought and a warmer, possibly drier, future.
blog post Drought Watch: Improving Environmental Management By Ellen Hanak, Jeffrey Mount May 19, 2014 This is part of a continuing series on the impact of the drought.California needs to modernize how we manage water for the environment during droughts, which pose a broad ecological challenge to California’s fish and wildlife.
