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DAILY DIGEST, 7/11: State officials say federal cuts threaten California’s environment; San Joaquin Valley Water Blueprint pushes for bold water reforms; Neutral ENSO conditions likely to last into winter; Trump’s climate research cuts are unpopular, even with Republican voters; and more …

July 11, 2025

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DAILY DIGEST, 7/10: Water Supply Strategy update: Adapting to a changing climate; Surveys show continued decline in white sturgeon population; Major fine for spill that sent 85,000 gallons of sewage into Lake Tahoe; Metropolitan advances project to help Southern California communities vulnerable in state droughts; and more …

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Daily Digest

July 10, 2025

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WATER COMMISSION: Water Supply Strategy update: Adapting to a changing climate

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Policy and regulation

July 10, 2025

Climate change is rewriting the rules of our environment, and California is feeling the heat—literally. With temperatures climbing to record-breaking...

DAILY DIGEST, 7/9: California’s red line of fire defense faces growing scrutiny; State wants to better understand salt build up in the Central Valley, starting with Kings County; ‘Finally, somebody listened’: The 14-year battle to save Tahoe’s largest ski resort; How did we get a dozen ‘1,000-year floods’ in 3 days?; and more …

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Daily Digest

July 9, 2025

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DAILY DIGEST, 7/8: Every mention of ‘water’ in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill; Like Texas, California faces major dangers when extreme floods come; Increasingly acidic seas threaten oyster farming; Water storage in dams has caused minute shifts in Earth’s poles; and more …

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Daily Digest

July 8, 2025

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DAILY DIGEST, 7/7: California has a drinking water problem; Farmworkers heal climate-scarred land with native seeds; Over 1,000 pounds of trash found at Lake Tahoe after Fourth of July weekend; A conceptual breakthrough has emerged for the Colo. River’s future; and more …

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Daily Digest

July 7, 2025

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WEEKLY WATER NEWS DIGEST for June 29-July 3: Lake Powell, Lake Mead, and SoCal’s water dilemma; Billions needed to fix CA Aqueduct subsidence; Plans to revive Tulare Lake take shape; SGMA implementation shifts from planning to reality; and more …

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Weekly Digest

July 3, 2025

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DAILY DIGEST, July 4th weekend edition: ‘Water brings life’: Plans to revive Tulare Lake take shape in the San Joaquin Valley; Years-old groundwater dominates spring mountain streams; Violating California residents’ right to water; Six months after the fires, are LA beaches safe?; and more …

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Daily Digest

July 3, 2025

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DAILY DIGEST, 7/2: CA Aqueduct repairs: Billions needed to fix subsidence; Cabaldon says it is time to ‘move on’ from Delta tunnel; Healthy Rivers and Landscapes funding restored; Newsom calls on Trump to boost wildfire preparedness and ‘make America rake again’; and more …

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Daily Digest

July 2, 2025

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METROPOLITAN IMPORTED WATER SUBCOMM: California Aqueduct repairs: Billions needed to fix subsidence

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Water project operations

July 2, 2025

Land subsidence along the California Aqueduct is threatening the ability of the State Water Project to deliver water, an important...

DAILY DIGEST, 7/1: Judge backs Reclamation in fight over CVP water contract conversions; SGMA implementation shifts from planning to reality; CA lawmakers approve last-minute, sweeping rollbacks to CEQA; Western states step up to save their wetlands; and more …

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Daily Digest

July 1, 2025

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DAILY DIGEST, 6/30: Lake Powell, Lake Mead, and Southern California’s water dilemma; Feds must decide on protections for Chinook salmon; Keeping microplastics out of the San Francisco Bay; Aquatic weed containment in the Tahoe Keys is the season’s focus; and more …

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Daily Digest

June 30, 2025

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COLORADO RIVER: Lake Powell, Lake Mead, and Southern California’s water dilemma

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Colorado River Notebook News and Features

June 30, 2025

Two years ago, the Colorado River Lower Basin states united to conserve an extra 3 million acre-feet of water by...

DAILY DIGEST, weekend edition: Kaweah second groundwater basin to escape state enforcement; Delta Adaptation Plan underscores urgency of climate-resilient water infrastructure; Spring-run salmon improves due to revitalized migration patterns; Critical reservoirs Lakes Mead, Powell hit ‘alarmingly low levels’ again; and more …

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Daily Digest

June 29, 2025

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WEEKLY WATER NEWS DIGEST for June 23-27: CA achieved significant groundwater recharge last year; LA: the future of water conservation …?; Glimmer of hope in Colorado River negotiations; and more …

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Weekly Digest

June 27, 2025

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