El Dorado County Water Articles

Since Gold Rush Days, water has been the driving force in El Dorado County life. Here’s how the water system works, and how it has developed over the years.

Comstock’s reporter Jennifer Junghans learns about some innovative solutions to the problem of ice on winter roads.

What do resource conservation districts protect? Pretty much everything that’s worth saving.

In a comprehensive six-part series, resident Tahoe Weekly historian Mark McLaughlin explores ‘Who Owns the Water in Lake Tahoe & Truckee River?’

Residential wells are drying up in the state’s main agricultural region at the same time that agricultural businesses consume almost 90 percent of the water there.

This year, an estimated 60,000 birds have been poisoned by botulism in one of the oldest waterfowl conservation reserves in the state.

As fire, heat waves and drought threaten the state’s water and power supplies, the governor calls for consumers to cut back on use.

By Meghan Christie Our future depends on the watershed. Its future depends on us. The 435-square-mile Middle Truckee River Watershed is vital to all life in our area. The watershed provides habitat for hundreds of species: fish, including the famous …

By Elise Matera, UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center Lake Tahoe is blue because it is deep and contains little algae. While Tahoe is also famously clear, UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) scientist Shohei Watanabe discovered in 2015 …

Story courtesy Clean Up the Lake Clean Up The Lake is a local Tahoe-based nonprofit that is focused on fighting back against plastic and all forms of pollution in our global environment. What differentiates the organization from others is that …