For the State Water Resources Control Board: On March 9, 2023, the State Water Resources Control Board Executive Director issued...
From the California Water Impact Network (C-WIN): A coalition of environmental groups – the California Water Impact Network, the California Sportfishing...
State Water Board approves federal request to divert more than 600,000 acre-feet of water for wildlife refuges, underground storage, and recharge. Decision helps improve aquifer conditions in Central Valley. From the State Water Resources Control Board: To capitalize on strong...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water If the coming storm hits as predicted starting late Thursday, San Joaquin Valley flooding hot...
Groundwater plans, largely serving low-income Latino communities, were deemed inadequate for preventing dry wells and sinking land. By Alastair Bland,...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Six San Joaquin Valley groundwater agencies learned Thursday they could be subject to state enforcement action if they don’t redo plans to bring their aquifers back into balance. In its final determinations, the Department of...
From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today conducted the third snow survey of the...
California may move to take over groundwater basins after plans to sustainably manage groundwater fell short of state standards. By...
Department of Water Resources Will Transmit Six Basin Determinations to State Water Board, Beginning State Intervention Process From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today announced decisions for groundwater sustainability plans (GSPs) for 12 critically...
At the January meeting of the California Water Commission, Keali’i Bright, Assistant Director of the Department of Conservation’s Division of...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water More state money is flowing to the valley to take land out of production in...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: The State Water Resources Control Board named Jay Ziegler, former external affairs and policy director for the California Office of The Nature Conservancy, as the new Delta Watermaster. He succeeds Michael George, who...
At the January meeting of the California Water Commission, Jeanine Jones took the commissioners through the history of past droughts...
Written exclusively for Maven’s Notebook by hydrologist Robert Shibatani The past week has seen unprecedented weather across southern California, the...
Like an old man suddenly aware the world has moved on without him, the conifer tree native to lower elevations of California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range finds itself in an unrecognizable climate. A new Stanford-led study reveals that about a...