Guest commentary by Geoff Vanden Heuvel, Director of Regulatory and Economic Affairs, Milk Producers Council: I remember being surprised when...
Commentary by North Coast Stream Flow Coalition, written by Felice Pace, Policy Advisor The first plans implementing California’s landmark groundwater...
Guest commentary written by Dr. Jonathan Rosenfield, Senior Scientist at San Francisco Baykeeper: Last month, Governor Newsom finally made good on his threat to sue the federal government over water management plans that would further imperil San Francisco Bay’s endangered...
Is the State on the Right Track? Guest commentary by Robert Shibatani It’s been about 30-years since the UN based...
Commentary written by Governor Newsom, posted at Cal Matters: Water is the lifeblood of our state. It sustains communities, wildlife...
This guest commentary was written by Julie Zimmerman, Jeanette Howard, Jon Rosenfield, and Rene Henery in response to The Final Demise of Unimpaired Flows, guest commentary by Robert Shibatani As river ecologists that work on environmental flows, we’re often confused...
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...
Wade Crowfoot and Jared Blumenfeld, secretaries of Natural Resources and CalEPA: After careful review of the federal biological opinions released late last month, our best experts concluded they are insufficient to protect endangered fish. As a result, the state needs...
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...
Guest commentary from the IRWM Roundtable of Regions: Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) represents a construct for collaborative water resource management, holistically addressing the issues and differing perspectives of all entities involved in water management through mutually beneficial solutions. The...
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...
Part II: How Much Water Was Lost this Spring 2019? This commentary was written by Robert Shibatani. In Part I of this series, we looked at the daily operations of Folsom Reservoir this past winter from January through March to...