drought

A severe drought prompted California Gov. Gavin Newsom last summer to ask the state’s nearly 40 million residents to voluntarily reduce water use by 15% this year. New data released Tuesday shows few people are doing that.

Directors of Southern California’s regional water wholesaler declared a drought emergency Tuesday, calling on local water suppliers to implement all conservation measures possible to reduce usage.

NASA on Thursday launched an online platform with information on how much water evaporates into the atmosphere from plants, soils and other surfaces in the U.S. West.

Atmospheric rivers play a major role in how the West Coast gets its water. Some of the rivers carry as much as 10.5 trillion gallons of water each day.

He expanded it to include all of Southern California. Vikki Vargas reports for the NBC4 News on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021.

With water conservation efforts continuing to fall short, Gov. Gavin Newsom extended a drought emergency declaration statewide Tuesday, adding eight counties that were previously excluded, including all of Southern California.

Expanded declaration extends to eight counties previously excluded: Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, San Bernardino, Ventura, Imperial and San Francisco

Federal meteorologists say there’s another La Niña, which can be bad news for parts of the parched West.

California regulators said they are preparing for the possibility of mandatory water restrictions if the state faces yet another dry winter

California is running out of water. That’s the harsh assessment by experts who say 90% of the state is dealing with drought conditions with the threat of mandatory statewide water restrictions looming.

The U.S. government has released projections that indicate an even more troubling outlook for a river that serves 40 million people in the American West.

The San Francisco Giants’ Oracle Park uses about two million gallons of water a month. That may seem like a lot, but the team used to go through way more. The Giants now use 33% to 50% less water irrigating the field than they did before the historic 2014 California drought. Here’s how they learned to conserve.

From dusty towns to forests in the West, illegal marijuana growers are taking water in uncontrolled amounts when there often isn’t enough to go around for even licensed users

What do the World Series, access to water and microwaves have in common? Turns out, a lot. We try to find links between these seemingly unrelated items in our new series “Connect the Dots,” and we find them.

The Colorado River, which provides water for 40 million Americans, is facing a crisis, as climate change has caused its water levels to drop to unprecedented lows, triggering water cuts across the Southwest.  The river is one of the country’s longest — stretching for 1,450 miles, from the Rocky Mountains through the Southwest and into Mexico.  Human-induced climate change has…

The Metropolitan Water District has issued a water supply alert. Watch this video to see what it all means for you. Ted Chen reports for the NBC4 News on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021.

The water level at Lake Powell on the Utah-Arizona border has hit a historic low amid a climate change-fueled megadrought engulfing the U.S. West

Scientists say there’s something different this year as the world staggers through another summer of extreme weather

Scientists say there’s something different this year as the world staggers through another summer of extreme weather.

Dozens of domestic wells have gone dry in an area near the Oregon-California border where the American West’s worsening drought has taken a particularly dramatic toll