This guest commentary was written by Julie Zimmerman, Jeanette Howard, Jon Rosenfield, and Rene Henery in response to The Final...
We can Thank Climate Change… Guest commentary by Robert Shibatani Some ideas have the uncanny ability of persevering! Like a...
…Not as currently configured, says Robert Shibatani Guest commentary 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...
Wade Crowfoot and Jared Blumenfeld, secretaries of Natural Resources and CalEPA: After careful review of the federal biological opinions released...
Guest commentary by Robert Shibatani: The phrase gets loosely thrown around by the media, general public and even by some...
Five years ago, California became the last state in the West to regulate groundwater. Many thought this would be impossible until the need for groundwater management became overwhelmingly clear during the last drought. We should not wait for the next...
Guest commentary from the IRWM Roundtable of Regions: Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) represents a construct for collaborative water resource...
Guest commentary by Robert Shibatani Whether you are a water utility manager, elected official, or homeowner, future water availability is...
Guest commentary by Stephen Baker, Operation Unite®: How can the short memory of the public maintain the long-term commitments of water projects and conservation behaviors? On one hand, California’s recent extended drought demonstrated that the public water users could reduce...
Part II: How Much Water Was Lost this Spring 2019? This commentary was written by Robert Shibatani. In Part I...
Guest commentary by Don A. Wright at WaterWrights.net: Just when things are starting to get back to normal after the...
“I believe historians will look back at the current Water Settlement Era as the second big rip-off of the Indigenous natives of the western USA,” writes Felice Pace. “First white society took the land and attempted to “exterminate” the native...
Andrea Miller (City Manager, City of San Bernardino), Douglas Headrick (General Manager, San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District), and John Mura (General...
From the Delta Counties Coalition, Don Nottoli and Oscar Villegas write, “One of the most monumental and potentially devastating decisions...
This commentary was written by Andria Ventura, Toxics Program Manager for Clean Water Action: The regulation of a potent cancer-causing chemical is about to kick into high gear, with Dow and Shell on the hook to account for decades of...