The latest issue of the San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science journal is now available. In this month’s issue: ESSAY...
The Delta Stewardship Council reports that nine appeals have been filed for the Department of Water Resources’ (DWR) July 27,...
By Blaine Friedlander, Cornell University Despite higher-than-normal amounts of rain in early 2017, the large agricultural and metropolitan communities that rely on groundwater in central California experienced only a short respite from an ongoing drought. When the rain stopped, drought...
Timothy Parker and Graham Fogg discuss the benefits and the challenges of Managed Aquifer Recharge, and how MAR can be...
On Friday, Secretary Zinke issued a memo calling for specific actions to be taken within 15 days to maximize Central...
By the USGS Extensive groundwater withdrawal from the unconsolidated deposits in the San Joaquin Valley caused widespread aquifer-system compaction and resultant land subsidence from 1926 to 1970—locally exceeding 8.5 meters. The importation of surface water beginning in the early 1950s...
Despite repeated assurances California has enough water to fight the currently 18 major fires raging throughout the state, the Trump...
Kamyar Guivetchi on the importance of the Flood MAR concept and what DWR and other state agencies are doing to...
From the California Water Fix Hearing Team at the State Water Board, the latest ruling letter: “This letter responds to the San Joaquin Tributaries Authority’s (SJTA) August 1, 2018 letter regarding our July 27, 2018 ruling on rebuttal testimony and...
By Allen Young, Department of Water Resources The Department of Water Resources (DWR) has embarked on a novel approach to...
At the July meeting of the Metropolitan’s Special Committee on the Bay Delta, committee members received an update on the...
From the California Water Fix Hearing Team, the latest ruling letter on the California Water Fix hearing for the change in point of diversion: This ruling addresses testimony that is partly or wholly outside the scope of Part 2 rebuttal,...
From the Delta Stewardship Council: The following certification of consistency with the Delta Plan for a covered action has been...
Proposition 1 Funds Conditionally Committed to Add 4.3 Million Acre-Feet of Storage Capacity From the California Water Commission: Eight proposed...
Lawsuit Seeks to Address Fiscal and Environmental Mismanagement of Staten Island in the Delta From the Wetlands Preservation Foundation: “Wetlands Preservation Foundation (WPF) today filed a lawsuit naming the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC)...