drought

Water shortages are not just a concern for agriculture or the Western states. Twenty-five countries, containing a quarter of the...

The water woes of the Western states have attracted a great deal of attention, but Texas faces similar issues. An...

The Yuma Valley, near the border between Arizona and California, and the Imperial Valley, in the southernmost part of the...

Outsiders sometimes think that California’s Salinas Valley—which touts itself, with some justice, as the nation’s salad bowl—is part of the...

After the water projects that divert rainfall and snowpack, the second major source of agricultural water in the West comes...

The agriculture sector in California and Arizona relies on two principal sources for its water supply. The first is gigantic...

It sounds familiar: California agriculture praying for rain after two decades of drought, then getting more—much, much more—than it asked...

Of late much of the media conversation about water use has focused on California, but Texas, with its own multiyear...

The astonishing amounts of water dumped on California by a series of atmospheric rivers have been national news for weeks...

YUMA, Ariz. and BARD, Calif., March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — A prolonged drought in the West is making the fate...

Responding to criticisms that he allowed too much of January’s torrential rainfall to flow into the ocean, California governor Gavin...

If you don’t understand the California water scene, you’re in a large company. Most of the state’s residents don’t either....

Recent growth in the Peruvian avocado supply has been possible in part due to farmers from the high Andean mountains...

The savage drought experienced in the western U.S. has long been foreseen, although until extremely recently it has been managed...

I remember the first three months of 1983. I was living in San Francisco. It rained every day. It didn’t...

The water crisis in northern Mexico has won a great deal of attention lately. Although the nation’s constitution guarantees its...

They’re right next to each other, and despite wild differences, they have one thing in common: water worries. They’re known...

Once I visited the Hoh Rainforest in Washington state. It is one of the few temperate rainforests in the world....