With the release of Irrigation Scheduler Mobile, irrigation just got easier for homeowners and agricultural producers. An online tool developed by researchers at Washington State University, Irrigation Scheduler Mobile combines information about soil, crop type and weather to calculate the optimal amount of water to use....More

The Bureau of Reclamation has selected more than $2.5 Million in WaterSMART Water and Energy Efficiency Grants to stretch water supplies and conserve energy in the Mid-Pacific Region....More

Struggling to provide water to rice farms along the lower Colorado River, LCRA has started pumping water out of the river to fill two abandoned gravel pits in Colorado County in an effort to develop new methods of providing water for rice irrigation....More

Agencies of the Department of the Interior and Agriculture are working together to leverage funds for water delivery agencies and agricultural producers for a second consecutive year, and will provide $5.3 million in funding to five water districts in California and associated growers to save water and improve water management....More

"Without a reliable water supply we have a Third World food supply and a country that will rely on food supplies from other developed nations," Vink said. "That would lead to financial and political instability, plus a dramatic change in living standards for all Californians and all Americans in general. It's really that simple and that dramatic."...More

The Bureau of Reclamation has announced an increase in the allocation for Friant Division, Central Valley Project agricultural, and municipal and industrial water service contractors due to current hydrologic conditions in the San Joaquin Valley and Sierra Nevada....More

The Western dairy industry is headed into another down year in what has become a series of three-year cycles of economic pinnacles and troughs. The availability and cost of water to irrigate crops and the economic health of the dairy industry have direct impacts across California agriculture. Without adequate storage to capture excess moisture in years like 2011, water deliveries have fallen dramatically this year compared to last....More

Thanks to improved precipitation in the Sacramento Valley and improved snowpack in the Northern Sierra, the Bureau of Reclamation is increasing the allocation for Central Valley Project (CVP) Exchange and Settlement Contractors, wildlife refuges, agricultural and municipal and industrial (M&I) water service contractors....More

The Southwest Climate Alliance is taking comments on a DRAFT version of the "Assessment of Climate Change in the Southwest United States: A Technical Report Prepared for the U.S. National Climate Assessment." Reviews must be completed by midnight on April 11, 2012....More