Tsunami Maps for the West Coast United States. Some of the information is missing. September 30, 2016 • ... the Port of Tacoma it is 15 feet of water at what is now the Port administration building.

There are some flecks of red, indicating the highest category of water use at more than 300 gallons per person per day, along the east coast.

I read the article “Santa Barbara Seals 50-Year Deal to Sell Water to Montecito,” which was a nice piece of work, thank you! As a lifelong environmentalist, I feel that all students and residents in ...

Throughout the western U.S., water conservation is in the toilet. And that's a good thing. Since the 1990s, a strange phenomenon has played out in arid western urban areas. Populations are booming ...

Already on the front lines of climate change, the American West is now in the early days of what could well be a prolonged water war. It is pitting state against state, and states against the ...

The atmospheric river currently impacting the West Coast, while creating dangerous weather conditions for millions of people, could possibly have a chance of temporarily reversing drought ...

An atmospheric river is a relatively narrow channel of wind, hence the "river," that transports water vapor from the tropics to the West Coast, where it's producing rain and heavy winds.

Strong ARs transport water vapor roughly equivalent to 7.5 to 15 times the average flow of the Mississippi River. Annually, 30% to 50% of the West Coast's precipitation occurs with just a few ...

As the Biden administration kicks off a years-long negotiation process to divvy up the shrinking water supply of the Colorado River, there are finally some signs of optimism after several bleak years.