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FEATURE: How Wildfire-damaged Plastic Pipes Contaminate Drinking water – and What We Can Do About It

Best of the Notebook Notebook News and Features Water quality Wildfires and watersheds

August 3, 2022

Written for Maven’s Notebook by Robin Meadows The first time a reporter asked public health researcher Gina Solomon if wildfires...

DWR NEWS: A Summer of (Eco)Restoration

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Ecosystems

August 2, 2022

By DWR News Summer 2022 is a season of ecological restoration for the Department of Water Resources (DWR). From June...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Water use in California dips, but still short of Newsom’s goal

Courthouse News Service

Current Conditions

August 2, 2022

Ironically, residents living in the Colorado River Basin cut their water usage the least, even as lakes Powell and Mead shrivel to ghosts of their former selves. By Kevin Winter, Courthouse News Service Californians used less water in June but...

THIS JUST IN … June 2022 Urban Water Conservation Update: Water use trending down

State Water Board

Current Conditions

August 2, 2022

From the State Water Resources Control Board: Statewide water use in June was 7.6% lower than in June 2020, and...

EARTH ISLAND JOURNAL: Helping Property Owners Manage Their Streams

Earth Island Journal

Planning and management

August 1, 2022

California Urban Streams Partnership shows Contra Costa County homeowners how to be stewards of their watersheds. By Jessica Hall, Earth...

DAN WALTERS: Can Newsom finally win long Delta water conflict?

Cal Matters

Commentary Delta Conveyance Project

August 1, 2022

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is trying to succeed where his predecessors have failed, building a project to replumb the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. By Dan Walters, Cal Matters Will the fifth time be the charm for California’s decades-long effort to replumb...

THIS JUST IN … Public Comment Period Opens for Additional Resubmitted Groundwater Sustainability Plans with ‘Incomplete’ Determinations

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Groundwater News

August 1, 2022

From the Department of Water Resources: On January 28, 2022, the Department released eight Incomplete determinations on groundwater sustainability plans...

MONTHLY RESERVOIR REPORT for August 1

Robert Shibatani

Current Conditions

August 1, 2022

Written by hydrologist Robert Shibatani With two months left in this water year (WY), California’s federal and State water systems...

SJV WATER: Utility stops flows to closed hatchery but keeps some North Fork Kern water for itself

SJV Water

Policy and regulation

July 29, 2022

By Lois Henry, SJV Water Southern California Edison has stopped taking water out of the North Fork of the Kern River for a state fish hatchery that has been closed for nearly two years but added a new diversion that...

COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE: California cements plan to tunnel out of water crisis

Courthouse News Service

Delta Conveyance Project

July 27, 2022

By Kevin Winter, Courthouse News Service Try, try and try again is the motto for the state of California for...

SJV WATER: Costs vs. benefits still unknown for the latest delta tunnel alignment, released Wednesday

SJV Water

Delta Conveyance Project

July 27, 2022

By Lois Henry, SJV Water Kern County water managers are, for the most part, sticking with the proposed Sacramento-San Joaquin...

WATER STORAGE INVESTMENT PROGRAM: The Road to Final Funding

Maven

Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

July 27, 2022

The first of seven projects could see final funding awarded by the end of the year; other projects not until 2024 It’s a long road to the finish line for the seven water storage projects in the California Water Commission’s...

PRESS RELEASE: Delta Counties Say Delta Tunnel Project Remains Deficient and Deeply Flawed

Delta Counties Coalition

Delta Conveyance Project

July 27, 2022

From the Delta Counties Coalition: In response to the release today of a Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) by the...

USBR: Smile, You’re On Candid Camera!

Bureau of Reclamation News

Fish and wildlife

July 26, 2022

Innovative Technology Offers Non-Invasive, Efficient Way to Monitor Fish Populations and Their Habitat From the Bureau of Reclamation: In an...

DELTA COUNTIES FORUM: Delta tunnel opponents express their concerns, push for alternatives

Maven

Delta Conveyance Project Notebook News and Features

July 26, 2022

The Delta Counties Coalition (DCC) is an alliance of the California Counties of Contra Costa, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Solano, and Yolo. These counties work collaboratively to give one voice on behalf of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and its 4...