— [cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … WEBINAR: Managed Aquifer Recharge: Where will we get the water? from 12pm to 1:30pm. Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) is an important tool in sustainably managing groundwater supplies. As many in California grapple with how...
— [cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … MEETING: California Environmental Flows Workgroup from 10am to 12pm. Agenda items include drought...
From the State Water Board: With severe drought conditions continuing in the Scott and Shasta River watersheds, the State Water Resources Control Board today released an updated version of an emergency curtailment regulation that incorporates public feedback on potential measures...
Seven states from Utah to California share the Colorado River’s roughly 15 million acre-feet of water annually. But in the 100 years since the states agreed how to share the water, it has become clear that the river is over-allocated....
— [cmtoc_table_of_contents] In California drought news today … U.S. Agriculture Secretary promising federal relief for CA farmers impacted by drought...
— [cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … MEETING: The Delta Protection Commission will meet beginning at 1pm. Agenda items include Report on Delta Stewardship Council activities by Chair Don Nottoli and consideration of Commission position on S.B. 821 (Delta Independent...
By Alastair Bland, Cal Matters Water plays a lead role in the state’s political theater, with Democrats and Republicans polarized, farmers often fighting environmentalists and cities pitted against rural communities. Rivers are overallocated through sloppy water accounting. Groundwater has dwindled...
