From the Department of Water Resources: On January 21, 2022, the Department released four Incomplete determinations on groundwater sustainability plans (GSPs) developed by local agencies to meet the requirements of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). These basins were given...
Between the double-decade Millennium Drought and century-old deals overdrafting Colorado River water, the west’s water reserves are drawing dangerously low....
Panel discusses recommendations to update California water laws to address drought and climate change California’s prolonged drought and the increasing impacts of climate change have some questioning whether California’s current system of water laws is equipped to respond to the...
By Christine Keiner, Rochester Institute of Technology The zebra mussel has been a poster child for invasive species ever since it unleashed economic and ecological havoc on the Great Lakes in the late 1980s. Yet despite intensive efforts to control...
SFEWS is the primary applied research publication for the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta. In this issue: Climate Change Impacts on San Francisco Estuary Aquatic Ecosystems: A ReviewBruce Herbold, Eva Bush, Gonzalo Castillo, Denise Colombano, Rosemary Hartman, Peggy...
By Christine Souza, Ag Alert The irrigation technology known as fertigation has been around for some time. But with increased water-quality regulations by the state of California aimed at reducing nitrates in groundwater, farmers are adopting ways of targeting nutrients...