(Natural News) All across California, residents are being told to scrimp and save water because of historic drought conditions. Meanwhile, state officials are dumping freshwater into the ocean while intentionally depriving rice farmers of the water they need to grow food. Colusa County in Northern California is the top producer of rice in the Sacramento […]

(Natural News) A fight over a 99-year-old sharing compact between Colorado and Nebraska could end up in court as the South Platte River in Julesburg threatens to run dry for half the year. Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts announced plans to build a canal into Colorado to drain water from the South Platte several miles upstream […]

(Natural News) Managing a homestead can be tiring, especially if you have a large garden. To make things easier for yourself when it’s time to water your plants, use an irrigation technique that suits your gardening needs. (h/t to TheGrowNetwork.com) Automated irrigation techniques Here are some automated irrigation techniques to try in your garden or […]

(Natural News) Two large water reservoirs in the western U.S. hit record lows after a decline of more than two decades. Water levels at Lake Mead and Lake Powell, both on the 1,450-mile Colorado River, fell to their lowest in June 2021. Due to the dwindling water levels, the federal government said it plans to […]

(Natural News) As Mac Slavo writes at SHTFplan.com, “Farmers in the United States have reached a breaking point.” The governments of California and Oregon are deliberately depriving farmers access to the critical water resources they need to grow crops, even when those resources are readily available. The problem isn’t “drought,” it turns out. That’s just […]

(Natural News) Brandi McKuin of the University of California, Santa Cruz claims that covering California’s canals with solar panels can save the drought-prone state around 65 billion gallons of water every year. She explained that canopies of solar panels would provide shade to the canal water during the summer months. This, in turn, would save enough water to irrigate […]

(Natural News) The Golden State is entering yet another severe dry season and the state government is responding by draining all the reservoirs and dumping all that precious fresh water straight into the ocean. Shocking new reports indicate that over the past several weeks, the California State Water Board has routed at least 90 percent […]

(Natural News) In a new study published in the journal Science, researchers warn that wells in the United States and more than 35 other countries could dry out if groundwater levels drop by only a few feet. Researchers Scott Jasechko and Debra Perrone, both water resources engineers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, arrived at this finding after […]

(Natural News) Lakes all over the world are decreasing in size due to the impact of human activities. The rate at which these bodies of water are disappearing is such that experts are warning that they could become a thing of the past in the future. Lisa Borre, a researcher at the Cary Institute in Millbrook, […]

(Natural News) Fresh water is an important resource that the world has a very limited supply of. According to experts, 98 percent of the world’s water is salt water, and only two percent is fresh water. But of that two percent, 87 percent is locked up in ice and glaciers and 12 percent is in […]