COURTHOUSE NEWS: California governor taps new law to streamline Sites Reservoir project Courthouse News Service News November 6, 2023 236The Sites Reservoir Project is slated to hold up to 1.5 million acre-feet of water, enough for 3 million households...
NEWS RELEASE: EPA Grants Tribal Nations’ Petition to Restrict 6PPD in Tires Press Release/Notice News November 3, 2023 169From Earthjustice: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today granted a petition submitted by the Yurok, Port Gamble S’Klallam, and Puyallup...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: Environmentalists accuse Caltrans of dewatering creek with endangered steelhead Courthouse News Service News November 3, 2023 620The lawsuit accuses state transit agency Caltrans of killing endangered Southern California steelhead trout as part of a repair project...
UC RIVERSIDE: Model to illustrate scenarios for the Colorado River water use UC Riverside News November 2, 2023 65Difficult choices loom as climate change reduces water flows By David Danelski The Colorado River is a lifeblood for the...
HIGH COUNTRY NEWS: California’s Central Valley chinook are getting lost on their way home High Country News News November 1, 2023 182The culprit is a tactic designed to save them – one that could decrease the species’ resilience in the long...
AG ALERT: Wet year improves Colorado River status Ag Alert News November 1, 2023 39By Caleb Hampton, Ag Alert A consensus plan agreed to last spring by states in the Colorado River’s Lower Basin...
SJV WATER: Judge orders Bakersfield to keep water in the Kern River SJV Water News October 31, 2023 163By Lois Henry, SJV Water In what one attorney called a “moment of truth” for the City of Bakersfield, a...
CAL MATTERS: Western States’ planned water cuts are enough to avert a Colorado River crisis, for now Cal Matters News October 25, 2023 79Wet weather and planned cuts by California, Arizona and Nevada averted declines that could have threatened water deliveries and power...
EOS: Dust Is Melting Snow—And Current Models Can’t Keep Up American Geophysical Union News October 25, 2023 46Mountain snowpack melts quicker when coated in dust. This cyclical problem is forcing water forecasts to evolve. By Kara West,...
WATER STORAGE INVESTMENT PROGRAM: Update on the Pacheco Reservoir Expansion Project Maven News October 25, 2023 411In 2014, voters approved Proposition 1, the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act, which allocated $2.6 billion for the...
PRESS RELEASE: Coalition urges the Newsom administration to reject the Sites Project Authority’s rushed application for regulatory streamlining Press Release/Notice News October 25, 2023 197Today, Friends of the River, Defenders of Wildlife, and a coalition of conservation organizations submitted a letter to the Governor’s...
AG ALERT: Saving rice land as habitat can help wildlife, farmers Ag Alert News October 25, 2023 66By Peter Hecht, Ag Alert As California agriculture braves a roller coaster of climate extremes, one sector—rice— faced a dramatic...
UC DAVIS: Adding crushed rock to farmland pulls carbon out of the air UC Davis News October 25, 2023 89Field test finds carbon stored in soils even in dry climates By Amy Quinton, UC Davis Adding crushed volcanic rock...
VOICE OF SAN DIEGO: What Water Bill Relief Could Look like for San Diego Voice of San Diego News October 24, 2023 76New research shows how big water bill discounts for the region’s poorest would impact city budgets. By MacKenzie Elmer, Voice...
NEWS RELEASE: New SoCal water bank improves water supply reliability for millions Press Release/Notice News October 23, 2023 263Officials celebrate start of $211 million High Desert Water Bank, Metropolitan’s largest-ever investment in groundwater storage From the Metropolitan Water...