By Lois Henry, SJV Water The federal government has OKed a 20-year extension of a water exchange program for one...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water After months of fireworks over low-ball pumping numbers and concerns that some groundwater agencies wouldn’t get on board, Kern’s last Groundwater Sustainability Plan was approved Wednesday with barely a murmur. The Kern Groundwater Authority board...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water State water officials are blaming almond and pistachio orchards for sinking the California Aqueduct before...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Heavy groundwater pumping to sustain a massive increase in orchards and vineyards in the San...
Earlier this week, the Newsom administration released a new framework for voluntary agreements that could implement an update to the Bay-Delta Water Quality Plan. Here is what organizations and water agencies are saying … From Bob Irvin at American Rivers:...
An update on the development of a regional plan to monitor the restoration of tidal marshes in the San Francisco...
Status of the negotiations for the State Water Project contract amendment for Delta Conveyance also discussed At the January meeting...
WSIP Program Manager Amy Young updates commissioners on project schedule, progress on the projects, and how the projects will be coming before the commission At the January meeting of the California Water Commission, staff updated the commissioners on the status...
Looking for more information on the voluntary agreements? Details of the voluntary agreements can be found on this power point...
Prepared by Robert Shibatani exclusively for Maven’s Notebook As of January 31, 2019 Our speculation on New Year’s Day that...
California filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Trump administration to block new rules that allows farmers to use more water from the state’s largest rivers, citing the rules’ failure to protect endangered fish species. By Jon Parton, Courthouse News...
Critically overdrafted groundwater basins are required to submit groundwater sustainability plans to the state by January 31, 2020 that outline...
DWR releases list of GSPs available for public comment on the SGMA portal Groundwater sustainability plans received earlier this month...
Statewide snowpack’s water equivalent is 12 inches, or 72 percent of the January 30 average From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today conducted the second manual snow survey of 2020 at Phillips Station. The...
