Groundwater Content / Groundwater Content for ºÙºÙÊÓƵ en Growing Crops with Less Groundwater /food/news/growing-crops-less-groundwater Learn about ºÙºÙÊÓƵ’ innovative approach to growing crops with less groundwater in drought-prone regions like California. Farm sustainably for a better future. April 25, 2023 - 12:08pm Amy M Quinton /food/news/growing-crops-less-groundwater Will a Wet Winter End Water Woes? /blog/will-wet-winter-end-water-woes <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>After a series of dry winters in California, the 2022-23 season has brought a series of storms filling reservoirs and piling up the Sierra snowpack. The turnaround led <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/03/24/newsom-relaxes-california-drought-rules/">Governor Gavin Newsom to announce the end of some drought-related conservation measures</a> last Friday. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> March 27, 2023 - 4:17pm Andy Fell /blog/will-wet-winter-end-water-woes ºÙºÙÊÓƵ to Lead Groundwater and Irrigated Agriculture Sustainability Study /food/news/uc-davis-lead-groundwater-and-irrigated-agriculture-sustainability-study ºÙºÙÊÓƵ researchers to lead research to find ways to sustain irrigated agriculture and improve groundwater quality and quantity under a changing climate. October 18, 2021 - 9:40am Amy M Quinton /food/news/uc-davis-lead-groundwater-and-irrigated-agriculture-sustainability-study Flooding Farms in the Rain to Restore Groundwater /news/uc-davis-flooding-farms-restore-groundwater <p>The Central Valley sky was a never-ending expanse of gray. Not a single pixel of blue in sight. Under it, ºÙºÙÊÓƵ scientists were flooding a Modesto almond orchard with half a foot of water. On purpose. In the pouring rain.</p> <p>It sounds a bit strange, and&nbsp;on Jan. 19, <a href="https://vine.co/v/ieZiEdhZdKj">looked even stranger</a>.</p> January 26, 2016 - 9:59am Katherine E Kerlin /news/uc-davis-flooding-farms-restore-groundwater Helping replenish California's groundwater /news/helping-replenish-californias-groundwater <p>As California’s drought grinds on, the state is in chronic groundwater overdraft: more water is being pumped out of underground sources than filters back in. ºÙºÙÊÓƵ researchers are encouraged by early results from tests to see if deliberately flooding farmland in winter can replenish aquifers without harming crops or affecting drinking water.</p> December 09, 2015 - 12:00am IET WebDev /news/helping-replenish-californias-groundwater Flooding farms in the winter may help replenish groundwater /news/flooding-farms-winter-may-help-replenish-groundwater <figure role="group" class="caption caption-drupal-media align-right"> <div class="media media--type-sf-image-media-type media--view-mode-default"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/news/general-news/2015/sep/jimmorris_groundwater.jpg" width="520" height="349" alt="Rancher flooding fields" typeof="Image"> </div> <figcaption>In promising new research, ºÙºÙÊÓƵ scientists worked with ranch manager Jim Morris to deliberately flood alfalfa fields to recharge the aquifer.</figcaption></figure> September 09, 2015 - 9:20am Katherine E Kerlin /news/flooding-farms-winter-may-help-replenish-groundwater Drought costs California agriculture $1.84B and 10,100 jobs in 2015 /news/drought-costs-california-agriculture-184b-and-10100-jobs-2015 <p>The drought is tightening its grip on California agriculture, squeezing about 30 percent more workers and cropland out of production than in 2014, according to the latest drought impact report by the ºÙºÙÊÓƵ Center for Watershed Sciences.</p> <p>In 2015, the state’s agricultural economy will lose about $1.84 billion and 10,100 seasonal jobs because of the drought, the report estimated, with the Central Valley hardest hit.</p> <p>The analysis also forecasts how the industry will fare if the drought persists through 2017.</p> August 18, 2015 - 10:10am IET WebDev /news/drought-costs-california-agriculture-184b-and-10100-jobs-2015 Drought impact study: California agriculture faces greatest water loss ever seen /news/drought-impact-study-california-agriculture-faces-greatest-water-loss-ever-seen <p>A new report from the University of California, Davis, shows that California agriculture is weathering its worst drought in decades due to groundwater reserves, but the nation’s produce basket may come up dry in the future if it continues to treat those reserves like an unlimited savings account.</p> July 15, 2014 - 8:25am IET WebDev /news/drought-impact-study-california-agriculture-faces-greatest-water-loss-ever-seen