water-resources

As global challenges like climate change, water scarcity, and environmental degradation intensify, the demand for skilled professionals in water management and sustainable development continues to grow. For Mexican students eager to contribute to meaningful global solutions, pursuing a Master of Science degree at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education presents a powerful opportunity. Located in …

In this week’s Food for Thought roundup, we learn if eggs are a reliable economic indicator, how CSU-bred wheat has influenced Colorado’s ag industry, and how our water experts are looking at the worsening drought, and explain why you saw thousands of blue jackets on campus last week. The post May 4, 2026 appeared first on College of Agricultural Sciences .

Spend a winter in Finnish Lapland and you quickly learn that lakes are not simply frozen. They are stratified, layered, chemically active places whose temperature at the bottom tells you something about the autumn that preceded them. Which makes a finding published in Water Resources Research this spring particularly unsettling: across roughly 50 years of monitoring data from dozens of Finnish la…

Proposal includes cutbacks for three years as negotiations over future of shrinking reservoirs have been unsuccessful The states of California , Arizona and Nevada have proposed voluntary water-saving measures for the next three years aimed at buying time while negotiations remain deadlocked over the future of shrinking reservoirs filled by the Colorado River. The Colorado River provides water to…

California, Arizona and Nevada announced the three states have negotiated a plan for larger water cutbacks along the shrinking Colorado River.

Some California farmers must start reporting to the state how much groundwater they pump. In two areas, Tule and Tulare Lake, they're submitting pumping data this week.

Join us for a virtual fireside chat with Weil. We’re thrilled to introduce a featured event of the 2026 Berkeley Corporate + Climate Summit. Presented by BCLB, Berkeley Haas, and […]

Nature Water, Published online: 30 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s44221-026-00639-4 Shifting seasonal water availability and variation in societal demands for surface water challenge water resource management. This study reveals that where streamflow timing becomes more narrowly concentrated, junior water right holders could benefit with greater shares of water within a priority system like that applie…

Concern over water access are poised to consume summer in the US, as crises in Corpus Christi and across the Colorado River threaten to boil over.

Climate change is not only altering how much water flows through rivers, but also when that water is available, according to a new study published today in Nature Water. The issue of when the water is flowing from snow fields to rivers is an often-overlooked variable that has significant implications for water users across the United States. “Water demand varies seasonally, but until now we haven…

Scientific Reports, Published online: 30 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-47988-4 The effect of water rights trading on China’s agricultural green total factor productivity

In this episode of "Clean Water Conversations," Stroud Center scientists Diana Oviedo Vargas and Melinda Daniels share what drives their work. The post What Motivates Scientists to Dedicate Their Careers to Clean Water? appeared first on Stroud Water Research Center .

A new USGS tool integrates information about water availability in individual watersheds at a national scale. St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, seen here, is part of the Mississippi Watershed. Credit: Mississippi Watershed Management , Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0

Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in tourism-driven and climate-sensitive coastal regions experience pronounced seasonal hydraulic variability that challenge conventional performance assessment frameworks. The objective of this study is to apply system dynamics modeling to guide strategic decision-making in the adoption of urine diversion (UD) systems for increased nutrient recovery. Specifical…

Record low winter snows mean insufficient water in the Colorado River. Here's how a city that's first in line to be cut off is handling it.

Researchers have developed a metal-organic material (MOM) that can capture water from the air. They published their findings in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Materials like this could be critical to combating global water scarcity, the paper stated.  According to the United Nations, water stress levels reached 18.6% in 2021, rising 2.8% globally… The post New metal-organic materia…

Google’s local water consumption around its The Dalles, Ore., data center jumped 26% in 2005. Credit: Google Earth

Direct attacks, oil spills and the threat of nuclear waste are putting the Gulf region’s desalination plants at risk—here’s why that matters

Groundwater protection is critical for sustainable water resource management, particularly in arid regions. However, current zoning methods show challenges such as data bias of expert-driven models and limited interpretability of machine learning models. To address these issues, using 16 hydrological datasets from Yulin City in northwest China, two methodological frameworks were constructed: one …

The through line for the western United States so far in the 2026 water year is simple: there's very little snow. With few exceptions, the mountains of the U.S. West have seen unusually little snow accumulation since October 2025, constituting a widespread snow drought. The lack of mountain snowpack has resource managers on alert going into the warmer months. Meager meltwater can affect hydropowe…