By Karla Nemeth, DWR Director For California water managers, the painfully sunny skies of March 2026 bear striking resemblance to March 2021. In the spring of 2021, the snowpack was, like now, about half of average. Temperatures were breaking records....
By Jim Mayer and Michael Saunders By any honest measure, California is living in water extremes. Long droughts empty reservoirs, idle farmland, and impact our environment. Then, atmospheric rivers roar through the Sacramento Valley, sending millions of acre-feet of freshwater...
By Tom Stokely and Max Gomberg Senior Policy Advisors, California Water Impact Network Rising costs are squeezing Californians. Groceries, rent, gas—everything—are on a skyward trajectory. And now, water costs are adding to the affordability crisis. In San Diego, cumulative drinking...
Commentary by Adán Ortega, Executive Director of CalMutuals, an association dedicated to ensuring effective and compliant operation and governance of...
By Dan Walters, CalMatters This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. From the onset of his foray into presidential politics a decade ago, Donald Trump has been obsessed with managing California’s water, often interjecting himself...
By Ariel Rubissow Okamoto A man died recently who was one of my heroes. Inside his big brain lay the secrets of San Francisco Bay. In one sentence he could explain the relationships between the tiny plants drifting aimlessly in the...
