From the Delta Stewardship Council: On May 16, 2013 the Delta Stewardship Council unanimously adopted the Delta Plan (after certifying...
A panel of lawyers discusses the appeals court ruling upholding the State Water Resources Control Board’s authority to regulate diversions...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: “With April snow measured at its lowest level on record, the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) announced that Californians in cities and towns reduced their water consumption by just 2.8...
Lawyers discuss the history and importance of reasonable use law, and ponder its future use The California Water Law Symposium,...
The Executive Director of the State Water Resources Control Board has issued an order modifying Bay Delta standards for the...
In this issue: Forecasting the Status of Wild Salmon in the Central Valley in 2100, Three-Dimensional Modeling of Hydrodynamics and Salinity in the San Francisco Estuary, and Modeling Tidal Freshwater Marsh Sustainability in the Delta POLICY AND PROGRAM ANALYSIS Forecasting...
Tim O’Halloran discusses the challenges of implementing the new groundwater legislation on the local level The provisions of the Sustainable...
This afternoon, agency officials held a media call to discuss their roles in addressing the drought as laid out in...
Organizations, legislators, and interest groups weigh in on the Governor’s executive order and the meager snowpack survey results Here are reactions to the news of the day, in alphabetical order (new comments being added as I receive them): From the...
From the Department of Water Resources: The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) found no snow whatsoever today during its...
From the Office of the Governor: Following the lowest snowpack ever recorded and with no end to the drought in...
Dr. Peter Moyle lays out a statewide aquatic conservation strategy for saving California’s native fishes in the face of climate change Dr. Peter Moyle is a professor of fish biology at UC Davis who has been working with freshwater fishes...
In her keynote address at Capitol Weekly’s Water 2015 conference, Senator Lois Wolk says drought is the new normal and...
Take a photo tour of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta … From yours truly, posted at KCET: “In the world...
From the Office of Governor Brown: Moving swiftly to help communities cope with California’s devastating drought and the ongoing effects of climate change, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today signed emergency legislation – AB 91 and AB 92 – that...