Oakley City, Utah, is placing a 180-day moratorium on new building permits and landscaping requiring city water. The ban is due to public health and safety concerns resulting from extreme drought.
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Every 10 years, NOAA releases updated temperature and rainfall averages based on thousands of weather stations from across the country. For the Western states, the “new normal” means hotter,...
Congress urged to include groundwater wells in infrastructure bills
The National Groundwater Association announced that it and 18 state groundwater associations from across the country have sent a letter to congressional leaders urging them to consider utilizing...
The California Department of Water Resources announced that it began construction on a temporary emergency drought barrier on the West False River in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The project...
Due to extreme drought conditions, the Bureau of Land Management is enacting fire restrictions on all of Utah's BLM-managed lands. The first phase of restrictions begins June 16.
The fastest sinking city in America is the town of Corcoran, California, home to about 20 000 people and known as "the farming capital" of the state. Agricultural groundwater pumping due to...