Cal Matters

May 24, 2021

Water agencies need to invest in infrastructure and plan for drought to diversify their water supply portfolio and increase reliability....

CAL MATTERS: New report: Drought to hit rural Latino communities hardest

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Water quality

May 13, 2021

The Legislative Analyst’s Office warns California lawmakers to prepare to dispatch emergency drinking water to vulnerable communities, particularly in the...

CAL MATTERS: Drought emergency declared in Central Valley, Klamath region

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Policy and regulation

May 10, 2021

Pressured by growers and legislators, Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a drought emergency in 39 counties as most of California experiences...

DAN WALTERS: As drought hits California, long-term issues loom

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Commentary Groundwater News

April 25, 2021

Californians face another of its periodic droughts and also long-term questions about the supply and uses of water. By Dan...

COMMENTARY AT CAL MATTERS: Raising Shasta Dam threatens McCloud River, sacred tribal lands and salmon

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Commentary Ecosystems

April 15, 2021

The Biden administration should issue a ruling that the Shasta Dam project is not feasible because of tribal rights and...

CAL MATTERS: Unwelcome and tough to evict: California’s costly, uphill battle against invasive species

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Ecosystems

April 12, 2021

Like house guests overstaying their welcome, foreign crabs have been nearly impossible to boot out of California. A new strategy,...

COMMENTARY AT CAL MATTERS: California needs comprehensive groundwater management

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Commentary Groundwater News

April 8, 2021

The Department of Water Resources should enhance groundwater protection with changes to California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. By Jeanette Howard,...

CAL MATTERS: Premature or precautionary? California is first to tackle microplastics in drinking water

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Policy and regulation

March 15, 2021

Huge gaps exist in scientific knowledge, but California is about to set the world’s first health guidelines for microplastics in...

CAL MATTERS: Will California’s desert be transformed into Lithium Valley?

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Ecosystems

February 25, 2021

On the edge of the Salton Sea, state officials and investors are seeking to turn brine into ‘white gold’ that...

CAL MATTERS: Well water throughout California contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’

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Water quality

December 20, 2020

These chemicals are everywhere. They last forever. They’re expensive to get rid of. And many Californians don’t even know they’re...

CAL MATTERS: What happens when a rural area’s only well is contaminated?

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Water quality

November 19, 2020

By Rebecca Sohn, Cal Matters In the spring of 2013, Jocelyn Walters and her partners moved Nativearth, their small shoe...

CAL MATTERS: Unsafe to drink: Wildfires threaten rural towns with tainted water

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Water quality Wildfires and watersheds

October 7, 2020

The damage to water systems can linger for years. The cost in just one small town: as much as $150...

COMMENTARY: Mega fires and mega floods: California’s new extremes require a response of similar scale

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Climate change Commentary Wildfires and watersheds

October 5, 2020

By Joshua Viers, director of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Science (CITRIS) at UC Merced,...

CAL MATTERS: California’s ancient ‘asbestos’ forests no longer seem immune

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Wildfires and watersheds

September 28, 2020

The North Coast’s rainforests are hotter, drier and less foggy. That means more dangerous fires that can scar iconic redwoods....

CAL MATTERS: ‘Debate is over,’ California’s governor says. ‘This is a climate damn emergency.’

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Climate change Policy and regulation

September 11, 2020

As more than two dozen fires still rage, Newsom stands amid charred parkland, vowing to ratchet up the state’s ‘inadequate’...

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CAL MATTERS COMMENTARY: Investment in Delta tunnel, Sites Reservoir will ensure water supply

CAL MATTERS: New report: Drought to hit rural Latino communities hardest

CAL MATTERS: Drought emergency declared in Central Valley, Klamath region

DAN WALTERS: As drought hits California, long-term issues loom

COMMENTARY AT CAL MATTERS: Raising Shasta Dam threatens McCloud River, sacred tribal lands and salmon

CAL MATTERS: Unwelcome and tough to evict: California’s costly, uphill battle against invasive species

COMMENTARY AT CAL MATTERS: California needs comprehensive groundwater management

CAL MATTERS: Premature or precautionary? California is first to tackle microplastics in drinking water

CAL MATTERS: Will California’s desert be transformed into Lithium Valley?

CAL MATTERS: Well water throughout California contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’

CAL MATTERS: What happens when a rural area’s only well is contaminated?

CAL MATTERS: Unsafe to drink: Wildfires threaten rural towns with tainted water

COMMENTARY: Mega fires and mega floods: California’s new extremes require a response of similar scale

CAL MATTERS: California’s ancient ‘asbestos’ forests no longer seem immune

CAL MATTERS: ‘Debate is over,’ California’s governor says. ‘This is a climate damn emergency.’