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With a historic snowpack starting to melt, increasing flood concerns in central California, there's an effort under way to capture as much of the water as possible in underground aquifers.
Grey water is perfectly safe to reuse on gardens and crops. But with high cost and little output, large-scale irrigation systems have yet to take off.
Helen Dahlke/UCANR Cosumnes River water floods a vineyard to recharge groundwater in an experiment conducted by the Dahlke Lab at the University of California, Davis. A UC scientist believes managed aquifer recharge on agricultural lands close to populations with parched wells is a hopeful solution. Suggested Event Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 17, 2021 When droughts strike, people who rely on shallow domestic wells for their drinking, cooking and washing water are among the first to feel the pain. Aquifers have become depleted from decades of overuse. Drilling deeper is an ...
Todd Fitchette Rob Wilson, director of the University of California's Intermountain Research and Extension Center in Tulelake, Calif., will face a season of zero water deliveries from the Klamath River as drought continues its chokehold on the West. The loss of water means research will cease on many projects at the station. Tulelake's Intermountain Research and Extension Center, SJ Valley's Westside Research and Extension Center will lose irrigation water. California farmers aren't the only ones suffering with zero water allocations this season. The research efforts...
UCANR Jeff Dahlberg, center, stands with a delegation of Chinese sorghum scientists in a sorghum field in Parlier, Calif., in 2015. Jeff Dahlberg to retire as director of the UC's Kearney research center Jan. 8. UC Cooperative Extension specialist Jeff Dahlberg, also the director of the UC Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center (KARE) in Parlier, invoked his 35 years of sorghum expertise to increasing interest in growing the crop in California and to better understanding plants' ability to tolerate drought. Dahlberg retires Jan. 8. As a Peace Corps volunt...