Father of Snow Science: The Legacy That Lives On More Than a Century Later
16th May 2021
In California and other parts of the West, the fresh water that is provided through snowpack provides clean drinking water, renewable forms of energy and a healthy ecosystem, and one man is responsible for the way the water in that snowpack is measured, even more than 100 years after he introduced the method.
Each year, the state’s Department of Water Resources conducts a water survey and compares it to years prior. Last month’s water survey found below-average precipitation across the entire state.