With 7 million Californians and $600 billion in assets at risk, Assembly oversight hearing examines the state’s liability for flood...
With $2.7 billion soon to be available from Prop 1, panel discusses how best to spend the available dollars and...
Stakeholders discuss how to integrating the multiple plans and processes in the Yolo Bypass Land use in the Yolo Bypass is dominated by agriculture; it is part of Yolo County’s heritage as well as a vital of its economy. Farming...
Restoration efforts have succeeded in restoring waterfowl populations in the Yolo Bypass; can the same happen now for fish? Plus...
Symposium focuses on how to integrate agriculture, wildlife, and public access on the managed floodplain In between Sacramento and Davis...
Panel discusses the pros and cons of Habitat Conservation Plans and Natural Community Conservation Plans In recent years in an effort to avoid ‘postage stamp’ conservation, many regional planning efforts have been undertaken that allow for development while at the...
Recent study by the Pacific Institute and the NRDC show that there is potential water savings equivalent to 10.8 to...
On January 1st, the new Sustainable Groundwater Management Act took effect. The statewide regulation of groundwater is one of the...
At the 2014 fall conference of the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA), the keynote speaker at Wednesday’s luncheon was Senator Darrell Steinberg. He gave this speech to conference attendees just days after terming out of office and the new...
The Delta of our modern times bears little resemblance to its historical self, a mix of native and non-native species...
Groundwater adjudications, notoriously expensive and time consuming, emerged as an issue during the development and ultimate passage of the Sustainable...
The Antelope Valley groundwater adjudication case is the current poster child for how painfully long and expensive groundwater adjudications can be. The enormous case involves a multitude of public agencies, farmers, cities, the federal government, and landowners, both large and...
In August of this year, Governor Brown signed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, requiring local officials for the first time...
Dr. Dan Cayan is the director of the Climate Change Center at Scripps and also concurrently holds a research position...
Managing large interconnected systems of water bodies presents complex challenges, and model simulations are an essential tool. For many years, the Great Lakes community has used models to support management of their system. The complexity of the Bay Delta system...