In the two years since dam removal on the Klamath River in California and Oregon, fall-run chinook salmon have come back in full force, but water allotments, remaining dams and drought conditions still pose challenges for recovery. By Claire Barber,...
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Though overallocation is one reason the river is shrinking, reduced snowpack and increased evaporation caused by climate change are also contributing factors. By Emily Gardner The Colorado River and its reservoirs, which supply water for about 40 million people and...
Report offers 50 recommendations to keep loss of small farms from becoming SGMA’s “seventh undesirable result.” The 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) marked a significant step toward addressing decades of unsustainable groundwater pumping in California. SGMA identifies six “undesirable...
From the Delta Stewardship Council: The following parties have appealed the California Department of Water Resources’ Delta Conveyance Project Revised Certification...
Researchers have grown increasingly confident in global warming’s role in post-2000 ‘megadrought’ by Chase Woodruff, Colorado Newsline Elected officials from across Colorado’s political spectrum continued a 68-year-old tradition last week when they took to the stage at the annual summer...
