From the Department of Water Resources: Moving to help preserve groundwater supplies for Central Valley communities, the Department of Water...
Here’s what you need to know about wastewater from oil and gas drilling operations. By Liz Gross, Inside Climate News...
By Scott Lewis, Voice of San Diego Eleven years ago, when the San Diego County Water Authority was going through the final stages of approving what had, by that time, become a decade-long odyssey to create the first desalination plant...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officially lowered the risk level of Isabella Dam from...
Placing solar panels over existing federal canals would create renewable power and prevent valuable water from evaporating at the same...
Groundwater is a critical resource, supplying nearly 40% of the state with water to support cities and farms. With droughts increasing in severity and frequency and climate change putting stress on local communities across the state, it has become increasingly...
From DWR News: 2023 has demonstrated how quickly California can move from one extreme to another — as severe drought...
Press release from Yolo County: Today, Yolo County has taken the necessary step of filing a lawsuit against the California...
Some documents and agreements that govern operation of the river basin expire in 2026. By Bob Leal, Courthouse News Service The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation laid down the planning process on the development of post-2026 operational guidelines and strategies for...
Switching from hydropower to fossil fuels during droughts has led to higher carbon emissions and cost 11 Western states tens...
By Hiba Baroud, Vanderbilt University Heavy rainfall in the Northeast on June 9-11, 2023, generated widespread flooding, particularly in New...
Center for Watershed Sciences Director Andrew Rypel talks the importance of — and paths ahead for — California’s dams By Adam Jensen, UC Davis Institute of the Environment With the first of four Klamath River dams expected to be removed...
From the Western Environmental Law Center, Friends of the Shasta River, and the Environmental Protection Information Center: Late yesterday, the...
From the Department of Water Resources: On May 17, 2023, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced the official launch...
By Robin Meadows As a New York Times columnist once quipped, “California’s water system might have been invented by a Soviet bureaucrat on an LSD trip.” The system was engineered in the 1900s to capture winter rain and spring snowmelt...