North State Water Report 90.1 fm KZFR Community Radio

15/08/2025

Brace yourselves for some potential dry water years coming. This article explains the el nino vs la nina very well

A La Niña watch was issued by CPC, with impacts felt this Winter across the United States and Canada, but an El Niño is now looming for 2026

05/06/2025

Be sure to tune in Thursday June 5th at 6pm for this months North State Water Report. We are in the first week of the Run4Salmon Prayer  Journey, an Indigenous Women lead prayer journey for the Salmon and our Waters. We’ll have some special guests on the show live in the studio from the Prayer. Hear the voices of the people who are laying the prayers down to bring back the Winnemem Nur.
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01/05/2025

It’s Spring Pledge Drive and the North State Water Report has a special show. Chico icon Jim Brobeck will be live in the studio with me talking and singing about water and the salmon. Lindsay Wood will join us for a bit and Regina Chichizola from Save California Salmon will give us an update on how the Klamath River is doing since the dams came down.
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02/04/2025

Tune in this Thursday April 3 6-7pm for your next North State Water Report. We’ll be checking in with Friends of Butte Creek Allen Harthorn on this year’s spring chinook salmon run outlook. I’ll also be checking in with independent investigative journalist Dan Bacher on what’s been happening in Sacramento that you won’t hear or read about in the mainstream media.

06/03/2025

Tune in tonight at 6pm for your monthly North State Water Report. I’ll be speaking with Gary Mulcahy. Gary is Winnemem Wintu and the tribes government liaison with more than 30 years of working on tribal water rights along with other cultural preservation efforts. We’ll be talking about california water management and issues related to the current political climate. A lot has happened since January and more could concerning the very sensitive bay delta and water storage. Federal Water Project management could drastically change conditions for the worst.
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07/02/2025

This is my show tonight. In December I had to postpone. So Jim Thorne from UC Davis will be my guest tonight.

28/01/2025

Zeke Lunder of the Lookout gives a really visual of the California water system. Here on the North State Water Report I can't give the visual impact that he is able to provide. I highly recommend viewing.

Summary Zeke Lunder discusses California’s complex water management system, using GIS data and live mapping to visualize water supply, demand, and delivery systems. He explains that 75-80% of California’s water originates north of Sacramento, with 40% of annual flows used for agriculture and 10%...

05/12/2024

I hate to let my listeners know that I’ve been sick the past couple so am unable to be in tonight.

04/12/2024

Be sure to tune in tomorrow night, Thursday Dec 5 from 6-7pm. My quest will be Research Scientist Jim Thorne from UC Davis Department of Environmental Science and Policy. Jim’s research focus has been a predictive model, “Basin Characterization Model” the spatial model that combines air temp and precipitation with ground conditions to make predictions about soil moisture, plant stress (climate water deficit), snow pack, runoff and recharge. Our talk will include landscape patterns of the water cycle and those might affect vegetation.
You’ll only hear about this kind of research here on your people powered community radio stations North State Water Report.

24/11/2024

“The researchers found that the average rate of sinking for the entire valley reached nearly an inch per year between 2006 and 2022.”

A study published Nov. 19 in Communications Earth and Environment shows land in California's San Joaquin Valley has been sinking at record-breaking rates over the last two decades as groundwater extraction has outpaced natural recharge.