The aqueduct capacity in certain areas of the Southern San Joaquin Valley is nearly reduced by half due to subsidence. In California, 80% of the usable fresh water is located far from where it’s actually used, so water conveyance infrastructure...
A new kind of Delta diversion could extract water at a slow enough rate, and across a wide enough area, that proponents say fish would hardly notice it. by Alastair Bland In California’s arid San Joaquin Valley, communities have long...
At the June meeting of Metropolitan Water District’s One Water and Stewardship Committee meeting, DWR Director Karla Nemeth was on hand to make the economic case for the Delta Conveyance Project. The meeting included a presentation on the cost estimate...
By Alastair Bland I first tuned in to murmurs about plastic pollution in the late 1980s, when my mom would send me and my siblings to school with lunches packed in brown paper bags and wax-based sandwich wrappers. Compostable was...
by Robin Meadows The San Francisco Bay-Delta is already among the most intensively studied ecosystems in the world. Now 18 experts are scrutinizing this system afresh in a committee convened by the National Academies at the request of the U.S....