Understanding and conveying groundwater’s role in a changing world Surface water commonly is hydraulically connected to ground water, but the...
Sierra Ryan is a water resources planner with the County of Santa Cruz. In this presentation from the Groundwater Resources...
Californians rely on the state’s myriad of rivers and streams for things such as water supply, hydropower, recreation, fisheries, biodiversity, and more. These ecosystems and the benefits they provide are part of the state’s natural infrastructure. But these ecosystems are...
The California Water Law Symposium is on my short list of not-to-be-missed events on my yearly calendar. The symposium is...
Presentation at Kern County event discusses the implementation of the newly-adopted salt and nitrate management plan for the Central Valley...
A joint workshop hosted by the Department of Water Resources and the State Water Board provides details on how incoming plans will be evaluated and what State Water Board intervention might look like It has been over 1950 days since...
Microplastics are ubiquitous and persistent pollutants in the ocean, and a pervasive and preventable threat to the health of marine...
This commentary is based on speakers notes from an ACWA Talk given by Anecita Agustinez at the ACWA Fall Conference...
When most think of the possible impacts of sea level rise, they think of coastal flooding and the growing risks to shore-based infrastructure — but there’s another sea level rise-related threat that is much less talked about. As sea level...
As groundwater sustainability agencies prepare their plans to meet the requirements of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), they will...
Dr. Christina Swanson takes a look at the status of the San Francisco Estuary’s fish community The San Francisco estuary...
Dr. Michael Kiparsky is the founding director of the Wheeler Water Institute within the Center for Law, Energy, and Environment at the UC Berkeley School of Law and has worked at the intersection of the technical and policy aspects of...
The Nature Conservancy’s Sarah Heard goes through the mechanics of the market, the first to be formed since the passage...
Climate change is already transforming California’s water cycle, putting stress on the state’s rigidly engineered water infrastructure as well as...
Planning for future conditions has always involved uncertainty, but the additional uncertainty imposed by a changing climate means new approaches are needed for exploring system vulnerabilities and potential adaptation responses. At the 2019 State of the Estuary conference, Andrew Schwarz,...