New study examines impacts of three desert landscaping strategies on urban irrigation and air temperatures From the Desert Research Institute:...
Statement from the State Water Resources Control Board regarding the ruling by the Court of Appeal (see here and here): Water scarcity is one of the most important challenges facing Californians. Ensuring that water districts and others divert and use...
Deirdre Des Jardins, Director of California Water Research, has become a bit of a fixture at state agency meetings, such...
The judge also found a proper review hadn’t been done when the permit was issued. By Edvard Pettersson, Courthouse News...
Supported By Reclamation Funding, Crews Are Transforming a River Channel By Gary Pitzer, US Bureau of Reclamation Each weekday, big, yellow dump trucks loaded with tons of gravel lumber into the brisk, swift-moving waters at Sailor Bar on the Lower...
The state is the first in the world to require monitoring for tiny pieces of plastic, which contaminate people and...
During one of the driest years on record, California legislators didn’t approve laws to protect depleted groundwater or boost water...
California will spend big bucks on beavers to try to boost their numbers and reap some of the benefits—including slowing wildfire—these ecosystem engineers can provide. After years of advocacy by beaver “believers,” the state has allocated funding for a beaver...
Prepared Exclusively for Maven’s Notebook by hydrologist Robert Shibatani As we near the end of WY 2021-22, much of the...
As tens of thousands of low-income Californians struggle to pay their water bills, the Legislature approved a bill offering assistance....
A standoff over shutting down ranchers’ pumps signals a flareup of water wars as California is gripped by seemingly endless drought. “To hell with it. We’re starting the pumps,” one Siskiyou County rancher said. By Rachel Becker, Cal Matters This...
By Gary Pitzer, Bureau of Reclamation Every two hours, a large, funnel-shaped container at the Tracy Fish Collecting Facility releases...
At the July meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen presented the results of a...
The megadrought gripping the western states is only part of the problem. Alternative sources of water are also imperiled, and the nation’s food along with it. by Abrahm Lustgartenm Pro Publica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up...