In March of this year, the Secretaries of the Natural Resources Agency, Environmental Protection Agency, and Department of Food and...
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BuRec’s first-ever declared water shortage prompts calls for a policy rethink by Jeniffer Solis, Nevada Current As drought and climate change threatens the Colorado River, the federal government officially declared the first-ever water shortage in the Colorado River Basin on...
— [cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … MEETING: The State Water Resources Control Board meets at 9am. Agenda items include an...
In March of this year, the Secretaries of the Natural Resources Agency, Environmental Protection Agency, and Department of Food and...
About 4,300 users were issued notices to halt diversions from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Some growers and municipalities will have to rely on other sources, while many can invoke their senior water rights to keep pumping from the rivers —...
By Robert Glennon, University of Arizona The U.S. government announced its first-ever water shortage declaration for the Colorado River on Aug....
Historic Drought Impacting Entire Colorado River Basin; Level 1 Shortage Condition declared at Lake Mead From the Bureau of Reclamation:...
— [cmtoc_table_of_contents] In California water news today … $2.7 billion bond fund to build water reservoirs sits idle in California “It’s been seven years since drought-wracked California raked in $2.7 billion in bond funds that promised construction of reservoirs to...
A Bureau of Reclamation report released Monday triggered a Tier 1 shortage among river water users, with Arizona farmers taking...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] In California water news this weekend … La Niña watch is officially on this fall, and that could be...
Because of the confluence of relatively recent water rights settlements and a looming shortage of Colorado River water, tribes like the Tohono O’odham Nation and Gila River Indian Community — which hold the two largest tribal allocations of river water...
— [cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … MEETING: Central Valley Regional Water Quality Board meets beginning at 9am. Agenda items include...
— [cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … WORKSHOP: SAFER Program Advisory Group Meeting from 9am to 4pm. Agenda items include...
The Sacramento and San Joaquin water-year type indices are fundamental to the State Water Project and Central Valley Project operations as every year, how much water is allocated to whom depends on whether the hydrology is expected to be wet,...