September 4, 2025

DAILY DIGEST, 9/4: Humanity is rapidly depleting water and much of the world is getting drier; Farmers flip fields to wetland for Central Valley shorebirds; What’s at the bottom of Lake Tahoe?: One team is preparing to show the world; Feds get 9 months to determine if San Francisco Estuary white sturgeon is threatened; and more …

September 4, 2025

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COURTHOUSE NEWS: Feds get 9 months to determine if San Francisco Estuary white sturgeon is threatened

Courthouse News Service

Fish and wildlife

September 4, 2025

A magistrate judge rejected the agency’s argument that it needed until 2029 to complete an assessment that was due 12...

EDF: New journal article highlights multibenefit land repurposing as an innovative approach to strengthen rural resilience

Environmental Defense Fund

Groundwater News

September 4, 2025

Madera County and the San Joaquin Valley serve as a case study of how to implement a more holistic water and land use strategy From the Environmental Defense Fund: A new peer-reviewed article in Frontiers in Water outlines how multibenefit land...

DELTA CONVEYANCE PROJECT: Securing Statewide Water Supplies Part 6: Fact over Fiction

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Delta Conveyance Project

September 4, 2025

From the Department of Water Resources: Modernizing the infrastructure that delivers clean, affordable water to 27 million Californians and 750,000...

PRESS RELEASE: First in the nation ban on plastic microbeads in personal products headed to Governor Newsom’s desk

Legislator/Elected Official

Policy and regulation

September 4, 2025

Press release from Assemblymember Tasha Boerner: Today, Assembly Bill (AB) 823 by Assemblymember Tasha Boerner (D-Encinitas) passed the Senate Floor...

EDWARD RING: Will the Sites Reservoir ever get built?

Edward Ring

Commentary Planning and management

September 4, 2025

By Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center The short answer is no. Never. What is happening with the Sites Reservoir is a case study in why, if the people running California today were...

SJV WATER: State pinning hopes for Kern River rainbow’s survival on hatchery, despite its checkered history

SJV Water

Fish and wildlife

September 4, 2025

By Lois Henry, SJV Water The state is poised to spend a little more than $7 million to get the...

AGU: Toilets and showers make up the vast majority of household water use

American Geophysical Union

Planning and management

September 4, 2025

Homes in California use less water than other states, according to a new study of a subset of US cities...

Day: September 4, 2025

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Feds get 9 months to determine if San Francisco Estuary white sturgeon is threatened

EDF: New journal article highlights multibenefit land repurposing as an innovative approach to strengthen rural resilience

DELTA CONVEYANCE PROJECT: Securing Statewide Water Supplies Part 6: Fact over Fiction

PRESS RELEASE: First in the nation ban on plastic microbeads in personal products headed to Governor Newsom’s desk

EDWARD RING: Will the Sites Reservoir ever get built?

SJV WATER: State pinning hopes for Kern River rainbow’s survival on hatchery, despite its checkered history

AGU: Toilets and showers make up the vast majority of household water use

DAILY DIGEST, 9/12: NOAA releases La Niña update for 2025; UC ANR team helps small farmers understand SGMA; Who manages your water in Southern California, and why it matters; Study: Colorado River can’t keep up with demand, needs immediate help; and more …