October Council meeting features Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot and Metropolitan Water District General Manager Adel Hagekhalil Reduced reliance on...
Written by Robert Shibatani Water rights, depending on jurisdiction, possess various levels of seeming indemnity and security, typically demonstrated through...
Climate change and drought are forcing California to reimagine its water supply future. One promising tool in the toolbox is water recycling, something California has been doing since the 1970s. Recycled water can be used for agricultural and landscape irrigation,...
FEATURE: How Wildfire-damaged Plastic Pipes Contaminate Drinking water – and What We Can Do About It
Written for Maven’s Notebook by Robin Meadows The first time a reporter asked public health researcher Gina Solomon if wildfires...
Commentary by Barry Nelson, a water policy consultant who has been involved in Bay-Delta issues for more than thirty years...
Written exclusively for Maven’s Notebook by Robin Meadows The litany of harms from yellow starthistle, California’s most aggressive invasive weed with as many as 15 million acres infested, ranges from crowding out native plants to becoming so spiny livestock stop...
At the June meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Dr. Jay Lund, the immediate past chair of the Delta Independent...
Panel discusses temporary urgency change petitions, transfers, and drought litigation As California enters the second year of dry conditions, many...
Dr. Peter Moyle is a distinguished professor emeritus and Associate Director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis. He has studied the ecology and conservation of fishes in freshwater and estuarine habitats in California for over 50 years....
The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, or SGMA, was passed in 2014 during a period of critically dry years; the legislation...
Dr. John Durand is a research scientist at UC Davis, where he studies estuarine food webs and fishes. He has...
When an ecologist, a geographer, and an engineer walk into a watershed bar, what do they talk about? Most of us recognize that when you ask resource managers, ‘What do you need out of forests? What do you value out...
Article written by Robin Meadows, Estuary News In just a few years, tracking the West Coast’s atmospheric rivers by airplane...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] California water is a seemingly unending battle of allocating an often scarce resource among cities, farms, and the environment. ...
Presentation provides an overview and details on the biological opinions and incidental take permit For the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project to comply with the federal Endangered Species Act, the Bureau of Reclamation and the Department of...