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Compared with the 2021 water year, however, 2022 brought less severe water cutbacks in the San Joaquin Valley. This report provides estimates of the economic impacts to agriculture for first three years of the current drought, which began in 2020.
Oct 1, 2024 · The ongoing drought is reducing water availability and increasing crop water demands, taking a toll on agriculture and related sectors. Economic impacts of the drought in 2021 were modest statewide, but more costly in the Sacramento and North Coast regions. Dry conditions will persist in 2022, increasing impacts.
Current systems of water management allow California water to flow overseas in the form of exports, returning massive profits for corporations. California officials must limit the misuse of water by industry for profit and better manage all water as a public trust resource.
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Here, we look at the effects of extreme weather on a crucial reservoir that supplies water to millions of people in northern California. This year is likely to be critically dry for...
Nov 4, 2021 · California farms have adapted to the resulting water shortages by transferring scarce irrigation water to crops that have a higher expected net revenue per drop, such as fresh produce and nut crops, while leaving some fields unplanted.
Dec 12, 2021 · In wet years, there may be much more than 80 million acre-feet of water available, but in dry years, it can be much less. In 2020, for example, California’s precipitation was less than two-thirds of average, and the State Water Project delivered only five percent of the contracted amounts.
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Apr 1, 2015 · Working with state water officials, UC Davis scientists last month released a herd or “bloat” of hippopotamuses from Botswana to chow down on vast mats of water hyacinth that also threaten to clog the intake to the California Aqueduct near Stockton.
