Within the Central Valley, over seven million acres is in irrigated agriculture, and depending on the conditions, water discharged from the site may carry nutrients, pesticides, and pathogens off-site and into water bodies or aquifers. The Central Valley Water Board’s...
NOAA Fisheries recovery goals include reintroduction to save the late-migrating fish In drought years and when marine heat waves warm the Pacific Ocean, late-migrating juvenile spring-run Chinook salmon of California’s Central Valley are the ultimate survivors. They are among the...
Late migration of outgoing juvenile fish is a crucial life history strategy for survival of spring-run Chinook salmon during drought years By Michael Milstein (NOAA) In drought years and when marine heat waves warm the Pacific Ocean, late-migrating juvenile spring-run...
In 2018, the State Water Resources Control Board adopted an amendment to the Recycled Water Policy to promote recycled water use, setting a numeric goal to increase the use of recycled water to at least 2.5 million acre-feet per year...
Written by Elyse De Franco Writing in the June 2021 issue of San Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science, a group of authors led by Richard Norgaard make the case that current approaches for integrating scientific research with policy and management...
