Floating wetlands sound like something straight out of a fairy tale, fanciful landscapes where the laws of nature are suspended....
The aqueduct capacity in certain areas of the Southern San Joaquin Valley is nearly reduced by half due to subsidence....
Current water policies in the Delta encourage “shifting baselines” that gradually degrade ecosystems. But ongoing work on the Klamath River shows that restoring ecosystems to a better state than the status quo is possible. By Alastair Bland Among the jumbled...
By Robin Meadows The first time Malissa Tayaba visited one of her ancestral village sites on the banks of the...
A new kind of Delta diversion could extract water at a slow enough rate, and across a wide enough area,...
By Robin Meadows A decade ago, California fish advocates and water suppliers seldom crossed paths except as entrenched opponents in a court of law. Worse, both sides often drew opposite conclusions from the same science on how the state’s massive...
California is on the brink of a water crisis, with projections showing a potential decrease in water availability by 4.6...
At the June meeting of Metropolitan Water District’s One Water and Stewardship Committee meeting, DWR Director Karla Nemeth was on...
by Robin Meadows Water diversions can harm aquatic ecosystems, riparian habitat, and beaches fed by river sediment. But the people who use water don’t bear the cost of this ecological damage. “The public pays for it,” says Karrigan Börk, a...
Jeffrey Kightlinger spent 15 years as Chief Executive Officer of the Metropolitan Water District, the largest municipal water provider in...
By Alastair Bland I first tuned in to murmurs about plastic pollution in the late 1980s, when my mom would...
In August 2022, amidst a severe drought, the State Water Board ordered ranchers and farmers in Siskiyou County to cease irrigation. Initially facing fines starting at $500 per day, escalating to $10,000 after 20 days or a hearing, they chose...
by Robin Meadows If you visit the Delta town of Walnut Grove during winter or spring, look for a surprise...
by Robin Meadows The San Francisco Bay-Delta is already among the most intensively studied ecosystems in the world. Now 18...
Nutrients from human waste boost ocean acidification & hypoxia in CA―wastewater treatment agencies say regulation is premature, environmentalists say it’s overdue & researchers say it’s “fair to ask hard questions” about the science. By Robin Meadows The State Water Resources...