Kamyar Guivetchi is the Manager of DWR’s Division of Planning, where he works with staff, numerous government agencies, California Native...
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 some standard of legally established priority. Water entitlements have been long-standing icons of local and regional industrial, economic, and political...
Climate change and drought are forcing California to reimagine its water supply future. One promising tool in the toolbox is...
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 California rivers and wetlands have suffered serious damage from dams and water diversions. Reversing this damage and restoring healthy flows...
Written exclusively for Maven’s Notebook by Robin Meadows The litany of harms from yellow starthistle, California’s most aggressive invasive weed...
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 water purveyors face minimal water supplies and have activated their drought contingency plans. So what more can an agency or...
Dr. Peter Moyle is a distinguished professor emeritus and Associate Director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis. ...
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 conducted multiple studies throughout the Delta and currently helps run a long-term monitoring project, the Suisun Marsh fish study, which...
When an ecologist, a geographer, and an engineer walk into a watershed bar, what do they talk about? Most of...
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. In particular, the question of how much water should be left instream for the environment rather than diverted for human...