By Justin Fredrickson, Ag Alert Project operators recently explained unprecedented emergency plans for cold-water temperature management to support endangered salmon...
By Danny Merkley, California Farm Bureau Federation California’s farmers and ranchers are under enormous stress entering a third year of unrelenting drought. Family farms and ranches have seen their access to surface water severely curtailed. There isn’t enough water for...
By Mike Wade, California Farm Water Coalition Farms require water to grow the healthy local food supply we depend on. But despite increasing water efficiency, farmers are always the first to have supplies cut. That trend continues this year, with...
Guest commentary by Bill Bennett The situation for the endangered Delta smelt is pretty dire, to say the least. Monitoring results show that the population of this tiny, silvery fish – which only lives for one year, used to be...
By Paul Gosselin, Deputy Director, Sustainable Groundwater Management, California Department of Water Resources California’s groundwater basins are a critical part of...
By Senior Environmental Scientist Cory Copeland If you ever go to coffee or happy hour with a State scientist, you should ask them about the first time they were scolded by a member of the public. I remember mine. I...
Article authored by Debbie Franco, Managing Director, Water Solutions Network Water Is Life – It Connects Everything. We are inclined to see water in isolation from everything else. We see this drought as an emergency condition that we need to...
