By Dan Walters, Cal Matters President Donald Trump’s intrusion into California’s long-running conflict over water management – essentially favoring farmers...
Press release from AquAlliance AquAlliance, Central Delta Water Agency, the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, and the California Water Impact Network...
Draft plan promotes illegal “voluntary agreements” and violates state water code From the California Water Impact Network (C-WIN): The draft State Water Resources Control Board Water Quality Control Plan for the San Francisco Bay / Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Watershed (WQCP)...
In rebuttal to the commentary, Delaying the Delta Conveyance Project puts California’s water security at risk, by Jennifer Pierre, General...
By Jennifer Pierre, General Manager of the State Water Contractors The State Water Project, a cornerstone of California’s water delivery...
By Friends of the River Earlier this week, Governor Newsom was all over the state pushing his two favorite water infrastructure projects, Sites Reservoir and the Delta Tunnel. He called the tunnel the “single most important climate adaptation project in...
By Alexandra Biering, director of policy advocacy for the California Farm Bureau California farmers and ranchers who divert water and...
By Charles Wilson, Executive Director of the Southern California Water Coalition We can’t escape our history. In 1984, the Southern...
By Dan Walters, Cal Matters Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters today for nonprofit news in your inbox. Voters in California’s farm belt, stretching more than 400 miles from Kern County...
Revised plan skirts the law, promotes disastrous “voluntary agreements” to protect Bay-Delta From the California Water Impact Network (C-WIN): The...
By James E. Cloern, Jane Kay, Wim Kimmerer, Jeffrey Mount, Peter B. Moyle, and Anke Müeller–Solger If we farmed the...
By Fritz Durst, Chair, Sites Project Authority Water is a precious resource in California—and like any smart investment strategy, we need to use it wisely and plan for the future. As our climate changes, our management of water supplies needs...
By Dan Walters, Cal Matters Sixty years ago, I was a reporter for the Klamath Falls (Oregon) Herald and News...
By Mike Wade, California Farm Water Coalition The draft environmental impact statement for the long-term operation of the federal Central...
By Gary Bobker, Senior Policy Director at Friends of the River, and Jon Rosenfield, Science Director at San Francisco Baykeeper Earlier this year, two eminent fish researchers wrote “California … is a world leader in having its endemic freshwater fishes...