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  • Gov. Jerry Brown, center, answers a question concerning the executive order he signed requiring the state water board to implement measures in cities and towns to cut water usage by 25 percent compared with 2013 levels, at Echo Summit, Calif., April 1, 2015.
    California Governor Orders Mandatory Water Restrictions
    In an executive order issued Wednesday, Brown ordered the state water board to implement reductions in cities and towns to cut usage by 25 percent.
  • Google Earth's time-lapse videos show see how the planet's surface has changed over time — like the evaporation of the Aral Sea (above).
    VIDEO: Time-Lapse Google Maps Show How The World Is Changing
    Google sifted through 5 million satellite images to create a series of zoomable, time-lapse videos depicting the human impact on the planet.
  • Morning traffic makes its way toward downtown Los Angeles along the Hollywood Freeway past an electronic sign warning of severe drought.
    California Moves To Kill The Lawn, Save The Water
    What's it going to take to get people to use a lot less water in drought-stricken California, the Technicolor landscape of lush yards, emerald golf courses and aquamarine swimming pools?
  • A sign at the Lopez Ridge Park in Mira Mesa saying irrigation is off in the area because of the drought, June 15, 2015.
    California Cuts Water Use By 29 Percent
    The data released Wednesday by the State Water Resources Control Board comes as communities are ordered to save water in case the four year dry spell persists.
  • 'The Water Knife' Cuts Deep
    Equal parts thriller and alarm call, Paolo Bacigalupi's new novel depicts a future America ravaged by drought. Reviewer Jason Heller says Bacigalupi keeps the plot taut and the dialogue slashing.
  • Medium shot of the Salton Sea, Dec. 7, 2017.
    The Shrinking Salton Sea Endangers Region's Health
    California’s largest lake, the Imperial Valley’s Salton Sea, is poised to begin shrinking at an unprecedented speed this year. The retreat is raising concerns about the future of a place that is considered both an ecological treasure and a looming public health disaster.
  • San Diego City Council Approves Recycled Water Plan
    Under the Pure Water San Diego plan, the city will deliver 30 million gallons of recycled water a day within five years.
  • An aerial view of Rostov-on-Don region, where the fertile steppes support some of Russia's best farmland.
    For Russian Farmers, Climate Change Is Nyet So Great
    While warmer weather might make farming possible in cold regions such as Siberia, it's already causing havoc on existing farmland in the south of Russia.
  • Thelma Williams' Fairmead home has been without running water for seven years. She showers at her parents' home nearby and fills up eight five-gallon jugs to bring home.
    All Tapped Out In A Tiny California Town
    The years-long drought in California has taken a severe toll on the rural, mainly African-American community of Fairmead, where water drawn for agriculture has left wells dry.
  • This otherwise idyllic scene reveals just how low the water level is in Lake Oroville. At the time this photo was taken, the water should have been three quarters of the way up to the tree line.
    A GROWING PASSION: How Water Flows
    Stream now with KPBS+ / Watch Thursday, July 30, 2026 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS TV + Encore Sunday, Aug. 2 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV. Water is serious stuff, particularly in California where drought is on everyone's minds Water flows into our houses and it also flows into our farms and gardens. With supplies growing more limited, how do farms and gardens factor into the water equation?
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