Written by John Brennan Late in 2015 two sisters contacted me to help sell their family farm property in Solano...
By Justin Fredrickson, environmental policy analyst for the California Farm Bureau We’re in a drought again—and a bad one—and that...
Water agencies need to invest in infrastructure and plan for drought to diversify their water supply portfolio and increase reliability. By Heather Dyer, CEO and general manager of San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District California just recorded its’ third driest...
Californians face another of its periodic droughts and also long-term questions about the supply and uses of water. By Dan...
The Biden administration should issue a ruling that the Shasta Dam project is not feasible because of tribal rights and...
The Department of Water Resources should enhance groundwater protection with changes to California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. By Jeanette Howard, director of the freshwater science team at The Nature Conservancy, Melissa M. Rohde, groundwater scientist at The Nature Conservancy, and...
Commentary written by Puanani Faleofa Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian), Water and Land Protector We need more water and land protectors....
By Danny Merkley, California Farm Bureau Federation Each March, those of us involved in water policy commemorate National Groundwater Awareness...
This guest article was written by Lisa Beutler, Executive Facilitator at Stantec, and first appeared in the January 2021 issue of Water Resources Impact. Wicked problems are confounding. By-products of human behavior, they intersect, shape shift, and defy routine corrections....
GUEST ARTICLE: Why the Sacramento region’s watershed is ‘super,’ and a buffer against climate change
Guest article written by Jeff Harris, a council member for the city of Sacramento and Bruce Houdesheldt, vice mayor of...
Guest commentary by Danielle Blacet-Hyden, deputy executive director of the California Municipal Utilities Association (CMUA): As the COVID-19 pandemic continues...
Guest commentary by Gary Singh, Board Chair, San Joaquin Area Flood Control Agency (SJAFCA) in response to this guest commentary by Mayor Michael Tubbs of Stockton and former state senator Mike Machado If we’ve learned anything from 2020, it’s that...
Guest commentary by Robert Shibatani: Every year at this time as the new water year unfolds, predictions and warnings about...
The State Water Project’s 1960-era infrastructure is aging and needs to be upgraded to meet the climate challenges ahead in...
By Joshua Viers, director of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Science (CITRIS) at UC Merced, and Julie Rentner, president of River Partners Californians are understandably focused on the wildfires that have charred more than 3...