Groundwater managers across the state are looking to groundwater recharge as a potential solution to their community’s water challenges. However,...
At the September meeting of Metropolitan’s Special Committee on the Bay Delta, Steve Arakawa, Metropolitan’s Bay Delta Initiatives Manager, updated...
The State Water Resources Control Board will hold a public meeting on October 16 to consider adopting a resolution approving the proposed Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board’s amendments to the Sacramento and San Joaquin Basin Plan and the...
From Courthouse News Service: Save the Colorado, et al. sued Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in federal court, claiming the environmental...
Water and Land Use From the Local Government Commission: In 2005, the California Legislature passed new laws that enable communities to...
From Westlands Water District: Today, Westlands Water District terminated its preparation of an environmental impact report pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The District was preparing the environmental impact report to assess the effects of raising Shasta Dam, as...
Five years ago, California became the last state in the West to regulate groundwater. Many thought this would be impossible...
Last week, the Bureau of Reclamation signaled that they would not be participating in the Fall X2 action, which is...
There are numerous agencies involved in water quality issues that are focused on the San Francisco Bay and the Delta. In this brown bag seminar, Stephanie Fong, Interagency Ecological Program Coordinator Chair, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, discussed the...
At the August meeting of the California Water Commission, Karla Nemeth, Director of the Department of Water Resources (DWR), spoke...
Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law & Graduate School, for The Conversation The question of which streams, lakes, wetlands and other water...
Last week, representatives for the environmental organizations that are actively participating in the Voluntary Agreement process sent a letter to Governor Newsom outlining their concerns and are threatening to leave the process if their concerns not addressed. The groups represented...
The Golden Gate Salmon Association has issued a statement responding to a memo from the US Fish and Wildlife Service...
In this edition of the San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science Journal: Chemically Enhanced Treatment Wetland to Improve Water Quality...
Some groups will likely paint the governor — who sees himself as an environmental warrior — as a politician who, when it mattered, sided with big business and Donald Trump. By Julie Cart, Cal Matters This story was originally published...