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The drought, with an assist from state money, is driving new proposals for reuse of sewage water.

Sierra Nevada snow drifts are at a drought-busting 173 percent of average, with the most snow recorded since 1995, California water managers said Thursday.

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More than a thousand firefighters battled to keep a raging Southern California forest fire from reaching foothill neighborhoods Friday before the expected return of blustery winds that drove the flames to new ferocity a day earlier.

Trillions of gallons of water across the western United States have been lost due to the severe drought, according to a new study. The shrinking water supply has caused the earth to rise.

State water engineers say using pumps to reverse the flow of the California Aqueduct would be a first in a drought but water agencies in the desperately dry farmlands around Bakersfield say the investment is worth it.

NASA scientists have begun deploying satellites and other advanced technology to help California water officials assess the state's record drought and better manage it, officials said Tuesday.

With California in a drought, the coastal city of Santa Barbara is thinking about firing up a desalination plant built in the 1990s.

Finding a river in the West that still behaves like a Western river — one that rises and falls with the annual rush of melting snow — is tough.

Hundreds of millions of dollars are set to flow for emergency drought relief in California. The legislature Thursday passed a package of bills that will fund water projects and provide immediate assistance to the driest parts of the state.