By the Department of Water Resources: DWR recently completed construction that transforms an island in the heart of the Sacramento-San...
Today was the first day of a two-day workshop focusing on the Delta Stewardship Council staff’s draft determination that the...
Day 1 of the workshop on the Delta Stewardship Council staff’s draft determination has ended with Chair Randy Fiorini calling on the Department of Water Resources to withdraw the consistency determination, calling it ‘premature’. Withdrawing now would allow the Department...
Today (Wednesday) is the first day of an expected two-day public workshop on the Delta Stewardship Council’s staff draft determination...
From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources has completed the Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) for...
Metropolitan Board of Directors expected to vote in December At the October meeting of Metropolitan’s Water Planning and Stewardship Committee, members were presented with an overview of the proposed Drought Contingency Plan for the Colorado River Basin which has been...
Last week was certainly an active week for California water. On Wednesday, the State Water Board decided to delay their...
Public workshop scheduled for November 15 and 16 From the Delta Stewardship Council: The Delta Stewardship Council (Council) will conduct...
The threats that sea level rise poses to coastal development from direct inundation are better understood than the threats due to rising groundwater levels. Rising sea level will raise the level of groundwater in coastal aquifers, resulting in damage to...
In recent years, media reports and editorials have suggested that environmental regulations have made Delta outflows increasingly large, project water...
Governor Jerry Brown and Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom have sent a letter asking the State Water Board to postpone voting...
Panel discusses water rights and pumping allocations, groundwater recharge as a beneficial use, public trust doctrine and groundwater, and the fee authorities for GSAs In 2014, California passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), which required all groundwater basins designated...
Oroville Dam’s Main Spillway Fully Reconstructed From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today announced...
In September of 2018, the Department of Water Resources released the latest economic analysis for the California Water Fix which...
The latest issue of the San Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science is now online. In this issue: ESSAY Ecocultural Equality in the Miwkoʔ Waaliʔ Don L. Hankins DOI // URL RESEARCH Western and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Ecocultural Restoration Joy B. Zedler...