A new Nature Sustainability study by Lucy Andrews and Ted Grantham found that only 8% of all rivers and streams in California are monitored by stream gauges that measure flow. Lead author Lucy told the LA Times, “More monitoring of these critical streams is needed to protect these vulnerable species. If we maintain the status quo, and if we don’t know how much water is in rivers and streams, we are essentially dooming some of our freshwater species.” The papers also outlined a method to improve stream monitoring and modeled a reconfigured gauging network across the state.
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