NOTEBOOK FEATURE: New report focuses on groundwater sustainability without leaving small farms behind

Maven

Groundwater News

August 26, 2026

Report offers 50 recommendations to keep loss of small farms from becoming SGMA’s “seventh undesirable result.” The 2014 Sustainable Groundwater...

DELTA COUNCIL: Appeals filed for the Delta Conveyance Project revised Certification of Consistency with the Delta Plan on remanded items

Delta Stewardship Council

Delta Conveyance Project

August 26, 2026

From the Delta Stewardship Council: The following parties have appealed the California Department of Water Resources’ Delta Conveyance Project Revised Certification...

DELTA SCIENCE PROGRAM: Final 2026 Delta Science Plan: Strengthening Science in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

Delta Stewardship Council

Planning and management

August 26, 2026

From the Delta Science Program: The Delta Science Program is proud to share that, following years of development and extensive...

COLORADO NEWSLINE: What climate science tells us about the causes of the Colorado River crisis

Colorado Newsline

Colorado River

August 26, 2026

Researchers have grown increasingly confident in global warming’s role in post-2000 ‘megadrought’ by Chase Woodruff, Colorado Newsline Elected officials from...

CERES REPORT: Water Behind the Watts: The Hidden Risk of Powering Data Centers

Guest Contributor

Planning and management

August 25, 2026

The report spotlights data centers’ biggest and least visible water use: the power that runs them From CERES: While data...

KNOWABLE: How much of a problem is AI’s water use?

Knowable Magazine

Planning and management

August 25, 2026

It depends. Though water consumption by data centers pales in comparison to that of some other industries, it’s a problem...

UCS: New study shows emissions from major climate polluters worsening water scarcity in California

Union of Concerned Scientists

Climate change

August 25, 2026

From the Union of Concerned Scientists: A new peer-reviewed study published today in Nature’s Communications Earth and Environment journal by...

INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: The biggest carbon polluters are to blame for half of Western water lost to climate change, ‘groundbreaking’ paper says

Inside Climate News

Climate change

August 25, 2026

Some of the most impactful changes have come in the stressed Colorado River basin. By Jake Bolster, Inside Climate News...

NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Pop-up wetlands for birds expand into Suisun Marsh

Robin Meadows

Fish and wildlifeNotebook News and Features

August 25, 2026

by Robin Meadows It’s a hot, mid-summer day but a welcome breeze keeps a team of bird conservationists cool as...

USGS: In San Francisco Bay, even an exceptionally wet year can’t supply enough sediment to keep pace with rising seas, new study finds

USGS

Climate changeEcosystemsResearch article

August 25, 2026

From the USGS Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program Extreme rainfall can send huge amounts of sediment rushing off...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: California Supreme Court halts SoCal town’s water utility takeover

Courthouse News Service

Planning and management

August 25, 2026

The water utility serving the town of Apple Valley had asked the state high court to decide what makes a...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Nevada files suit over Colorado River plan

Courthouse News Service

Colorado River

August 25, 2026

The Silver State claims a key document failed to consider the economic impacts communities would face because of the water...