…Not as currently configured, says Robert Shibatani Guest commentary by Robert Shibatani: Water rights, depending on jurisdiction, possess various levels...
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 academics and hydrological practitioners. But few, if anyone, takes the time to really explain it, to define its component parts,...
Five years ago, California became the last state in the West to regulate groundwater. Many thought this would be impossible...
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 a concern. There are several factors fostering that concern and one of them is climate change. In fact, these days,...
Guest commentary by Stephen Baker, Operation Unite®: How can the short memory of the public maintain the long-term commitments of...
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 recent drought, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014 has sucked all the oxygen out of the room. It’s common...
“I believe historians will look back at the current Water Settlement Era as the second big rip-off of the Indigenous...
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 in California’s water history is currently being considered, and the health and sustainability of the backbone of California’s water system...
This commentary was written by Andria Ventura, Toxics Program Manager for Clean Water Action: The regulation of a potent cancer-causing...
California Water Governance Takes Important Step Forward By Robert Shibatani The State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) released its new...
From Sacramento County Supervisor Don Nottoli and Yolo County Supervisor Oscar Villegas on behalf of the Delta Counties Coalition: This winter and spring may forever be known – like many fishermen would say – as “the one that got away.”...