In California water news today, What caused nearly 20,000 earthquakes at Oroville Dam? Scientists weigh in; High tides and storms could be California’s next costly […]
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NEWS WORTH NOTING: DWR launching Salton Sea habitat enhancement project; Colorado River Delta report provides restoration road map
DWR Launching Salton Sea Habitat Enhancement Project Accepting Submissions of Qualifications for Construction From the Department of Water Resources: In a key step toward stemming […]
FEATURED ARTICLES
CAL WATER FIX HEARINGS: Protestors write State Water Board, say hearing cannot be finalized
Recent developments propose significant changes to project operations that are not reflected in the modeling, they say Several letters were delivered to the California Water […]
MOUNTAIN COUNTIES SYMPOSIUM: Delta Watermaster Michael George and Jason Peltier discuss moving forward in the Delta *UPDATED with comments from Restore the Delta*
This post has been updated with Restore the Delta’s comments added after Michael George’s presentation. Click to go there. In October of 2018, the Mountain […]
REACTIONS: Water agencies and organizations react to voluntary settlements and the State Water Board vote to adopt new flow standards for San Joaquin River tributaries
In a meeting yesterday that began at 9:30am and went into the evening, the State Water Board voted 4-1 to adopt the controversial flow standards […]
ACWA CONFERENCE: Department of Water Resources Director Karla Nemeth on the Department’s efforts to confront the challenges ahead
Karla Nemeth was appointed Director of the California Department of Water Resources by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. on January 10, 2018. As the Director, […]
WEEKLY FEATURES
BLOG ROUND-UP: State Water Board decision, Brown-Trump water agreements, Delta smelt, Beyond the drought contingency plan, WOTUS rollback, and more …
Thank you, State Water Board: On the Public Record writes, “They did it! I am so relieved and pleased. I really worried that there would […]
SCIENCE FEATURES
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Drought, climate change, and restoration resiliency
John Durand looks at the effects of the 2012-2016 drought on the Delta from the environmental, economic, and stakeholder perspectives The 2012-2016 drought is one […]
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Emergent groundwater and sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay Area: the silent and largely unknown underground threat
The threats that sea level rise poses to coastal development from direct inundation are better understood than the threats due to rising groundwater levels. Rising […]
BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Checking assertions with data: Untangling factors that constrain water exports from the San Francisco Bay estuary
In recent years, media reports and editorials have suggested that environmental regulations have made Delta outflows increasingly large, project water exports are frequently limited or […]
SF ESTUARY & WATERSHED SCIENCE: Ecocultural equality and restoration, Use of captive-reared Delta smelt for species recovery, Outflow and salt intrusion in the Delta; and more …
The latest issue of the San Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science is now online. In this issue: ESSAY Ecocultural Equality in the Miwkoʔ Waaliʔ Don […]
