The Delta is constantly changing and predicting these changes has become a difficult task. As California’s climate changes in sometimes...
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By Jesse Vad, SJV Water The surging San Joaquin River is proving to be another tough water management problem. The raging waters from this year’s historic rain and snowpack are seeping through levees, destroying crops and threatening the city of...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Cooler weather has slowed the anticipated snowmelt above Lake Isabella enough that outflows from the...
By Rachel Becker, CalMatters When ranchers violated an emergency order to stop pumping water from the drought-plagued Shasta River last...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: Now posted on the State Water Resources Control Board website is the Final 2023 Sacramento River Temperature Management Plan (Final TMP), submitted June 7, 2023 by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Questions may...
Written by Bob Leamon, University of Maryland, Baltimore County This article was originally published at The Conversation. El Niño is...
by Nat Lash, Mark Olalde and Ash Ngu, and photography by Liz Moughon This story was originally published by ProPublica. ...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water With all the flooding, runoff and more snowmelt still to come, everyone’s wondering: How’s the groundwater? Short answer: Better. Long answer: It’s going to take more than one good water year to reach sustainability. After...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water The small town of Tooleville ran out of water and started receiving water hauled in...
Written by Robin Meadows It sounds like such a simple fix for California’s groundwater woes. In phenomenally wet years like...
By NASA/JPL Early data shows the greatest net gain of water over the winter in nearly 22 years, but the state’s groundwater levels still suffer from the effects of years of drought. After years of intense drought and diminishing groundwater,...
Nine out of 10 permits issued for projects in Central Valley From the State Water Resources Control Board: Seizing the...
By Natalie Hanson, Courthouse News Service A debate in California’s Assembly about whether to fast-track bills looking to trim down...
By DWR News Delta smelt are a fish that have gone from vast abundance to the brink of extinction. After seeing some positive results with releasing hatchery-raised Delta smelt into the wild in 2022, the Department of Water Resources (DWR)...