California’s changing climate requires residents to move beyond temporary emergency drought measures and adopt permanent changes to use water more...
Wade Crowfoot appointed Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the appointment of his California...
As part of its charge to review science activities that support adaptive management in the Delta, the Delta Independent Science Board (DISB) has completed a review of the scientific basis for assessing water quality in the Delta. The review focused...
Litigation necessary to preserve options for best outcomes for the environment and SFPUC’s 2.7 million water customers From the San...
At the January meeting of Metropolitan Water District’s Water Planning and Stewardship Committee, Bay Delta Initiatives Manager Steve Arakawa updated...
Dr. Jeff Mount has a long history of involvement with science issues in the Delta. As a professor at UC Davis, he started the Center for Watershed Sciences, which became home to researchers working on the Delta; he was on...
By Susan Kelley, Cornell University Years of drought have parched California’s vast agricultural lands, prompting farmers to drill deeper and...
“If there is no Drought Contingency Plan, we don’t want to leave potentially half a million acre-feet or more locked...
From the Department of Water Resources: The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) today announced final basin prioritization for the majority of groundwater basins in the state as required under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). Today’s announcement finalizes the prioritization...
From the Desert Research Institute: To protect communities in arid landscapes from devastating wildfires, preparation is key. New research from...
From the Department of Water Resources: Today, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) conducted the first Phillips Station snow survey...
The latest climate change assessments show reduced Delta exports and carryover storage due to climate change likely by mid-century In the latter half of 2018, both the federal and state governments released new climate change assessments that outline the projected...
By DWR Director Karla Nemeth California’s State Water Project and federal Central Valley Project span several northern watersheds, converging in...
The draft of the update, just under 50 pages, is a much more trimmed down version of its predecessors and...
RESEARCH Hourly Analyses of the Large Storms and Atmospheric Rivers that Provide Most of California’s Precipitation in Only 10 to 100 Hours per Year Maryam A. Lamjiri, Michael D. Dettinger, F. Martin Ralph, Nina S. Oakley, and Jonathan J. Rutz...