DWR NEWS: Innovative collection system supports reintroducing winter-run salmon to the McCloud river
From the Department of Water Resources The Department of Water Resources (DWR), along with its Tribal, state, and federal partners,...
At the January meeting of the California Water Commission, commissioners discussed what discretion the Commission has if a project selected for the Water Storage Investment Program is making insufficient progress toward completing the program’s statutory requirements. Proposition 1 of 2014...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Kern County Superior Court Judge Gregory Pulskamp let the battalion of attorneys in court Wednesday...
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The wide-ranging initiative includes a bevy of dam removal projects By Hillel Aron California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a new strategy Tuesday to restore the state’s ailing salmon population. “Salmon are an integral part of our shared history in California,”...
By Mary K. Miller The drive down Fire Truck Road to the Montezuma Wetlands Project, where the Delta and Suisun...
As California officials craft new regulations for urban water conservation, critics who belittle the importance of these efforts are often...
By Alan Riquelmy, Courthouse News Service There’s a structure that stands near a snow survey point at Phillips Station, off Highway 50 near South Lake Tahoe. This time last year it was partially covered in snow. On Tuesday, snow levels...
By Caleb Hampton, Ag Alert The return of fully planted rice crops to the Sacramento Valley following years of drought...
From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today conducted the second snow survey of the...
From the Office of the Governor: Governor Gavin Newsom today announced new actions and efforts already underway that California is taking to help restore California’s salmon populations. After 10 years of rapidly intensifying drought and more extreme weather, salmon are...
Qian Cao, University of California, San Diego A series of atmospheric rivers is bringing the threat of heavy downpours, flooding,...
By Robin Meadows It’s a lovely December morning in Rio Vista, a town of 10,000 in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta....
A low-salinity Bay Area estuary ecosystem is producing higher-than-expected levels of methane By Aliyah Kovner, Berkeley Lab As sea levels rise due to global warming, ecosystems are being altered. One small silver lining, scientists believed, was that the tidal wetlands...