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...
From Restore the Delta: Documents released to the Planning and Conservation League via a public records act request this week...
Panel discussion looks at groundwater-surface water interactions under SGMA from a regulatory, environmental, academic, and policy perspective The Sustainable Groundwater...
Recent developments propose significant changes to project operations that are not reflected in the modeling, they say Several letters were delivered to the California Water Fix hearing team at the State Water Board yesterday saying that in light of the...