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These Farmers Recharged Groundwater by Catching Atmospheric Rivers

Recent Rains Prompt Considerations for Groundwater Recharge Options

Perspectives on DairyMAR

By Thomas Harter and Helen Dahlke, April 9, 2023

Commentary: How managing flood flows can help rescue aquifers

By Thomas Harter, Mallika Nocco, Isaya Kisekka and Helen Dahlke, April 12, 2023

Amid soaking storms, California turns to farmland to funnel water into depleted aquifers

By Ian James, Staff Writer, March 21, 2023 5 AM PT

How California is using recent floods to prepare for future drought. Diverting and storing excess floodwaters in aquifers could help replenish depleted groundwater supplies.

By Allyson Chiu, March 15, 2023 at 6:30 a.m. EDT

Can Nine Atmospheric Rivers Recharge California’s Groundwater? Interview with Helen Dahlke

Public Policy Institute of California. By Sarah Bardeen, BLOG POST · FEBRUARY 6, 2023

CALIFORNIA WATER AGENCIES HOPED A DELUGE WOULD RECHARGE THEIR AQUIFERS. BUT WHEN IT CAME, SOME COULDN’T USE IT

 February 16, 2023, By Nick Cahill

Can California’s floods help recharge depleted groundwater supplies? Plans to drown orchards and farm fields to boost aquifers get off to a slow start

ScienceInsider. By DAN CHARLES, 23 JAN 2023.

What this series of atmospheric rivers says about California’s drought and water future

By Manola Secaira. January 6, 2023

A Farmer’s Quest to Beat California’s Waves of Drought and Deluge

 By Susie Cagle, Backchannel, APR 12, 2022

California snowpack vastly depleted after record dry start to year. Snow could be gone by late April, straining water resources, worsening the drought and increasing the fire risk into the summer.

By Diana Leonard, Updated April 1, 2022

The deceptively simple plan to replenish California’s groundwater

 By Alejandra Borunda, Mar 23, 2022

Historic rain and snow begin to refresh California lakes and mountains. An atmospheric river dropped 8 trillion gallons of water on California, making a small dent in the drought

By Kasha Patel and Zach Levitt. October 27, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. EDT

It’s Some of America’s Richest Farmland. But What Is It Without Water?

By Somini Sengupta. June 28, 2021,
Updated Oct. 21, 2021

Presentation to the National Academies of Sciences, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources and the Water Science and Technology Board on the Future of Managed Aquifer Recharge in the U.S.

Groundwater Recharge with Helen Dahlke

Podcast (28.53 min) | Interview with Luke Milliron, Orchard Systems Advisor, Butte County, MAR 15, 2021

Farmers, researchers working to shore up California’s water woes

Water is scarce in California. But farmers have found ways to store it underground

NPR, By Dan Charles. October 5, 2021, 4:13 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered