By Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center When choosing what policies and projects might best ensure abundant water for California’s ecosystems, farms, and cities, the role of the delta is central. Even if...
Commentary by Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center For most of the previous century, Californians successfully designed and built big water infrastructure. In sixty years, from 1910 through 1970, we built the most...
The courts, project costs, and political realities are combining to sink the DCP From the California Water Impact Network: In recent testimony before the State Water Board, the General Manager of the Zone 7 Water Agency—which serves the Silicon Valley...
By Graham Bradner, Executive Director for the Delta Conveyance Design and Construction Authority California’s Delta Conveyance Project is among the most significant water infrastructure investments in the state’s history. It is a modern upgrade to a more than 60-year-old water...
By Michelle Paul, California Farm Water Coalition From the moment California’s earliest residents called the vast, fertile soils of California’s Central Valley home, efforts began to solve one of the state’s oldest challenges: harnessing the water. With rainfall and snowpack...