Water

A new approach to flood management around the San Francisco Bay could trim maintenance costs for water agencies, restore habitat for endangered species, and help protect against rising seas. What [...]

Drones may be coming to a public agency near you. The benefits are obvious: Unmanned aerial vehicles are faster and cheaper than manned flights or boots on the ground, and can also go places that [...]

We’ve seen fire aplenty this year. The California wildfire season got off to an early, rip-roaring start and continues apace, stretching budgets and firefighters. The Mendocino Complex Fire [...]

When Spreck Rosekrans visits Hetch Hetchy — the valley in Yosemite National Park that San Francisco turned into a reservoir nearly a century ago — he looks beyond what is. Instead, he envisions [...]

This small rectangle of wetland near the San Francisco Bay in San Lorenzo doesn’t look particularly visionary. Above ground, it’s an appealing — if unusually orderly — array of meadows, cattails, [...]