USBR NEWS: Making the Friant-Kern Canal Whole Again Bureau of Reclamation News News January 23, 2023 49Project Aims to Restore the Venerable Asset’s Ability to Convey Water By Gary Pitzer, Bureau of Reclamation When a key...
COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE: Unlocking ‘nature’s storm drains’ to harness floods and combat California’s drought Courthouse News Service News January 21, 2023 17What if valleys — carved by glaciers during the last ice age and filled over millennia with highly permeable sand...
DWR NEWS: Groundwater Recharge – Capturing Water from Storms to Replenish Stressed Groundwater Basins Department of Water Resources (DWR) News January 18, 2023 8By DWR News The wet winter storms in January 2023 have brought a lot of water that has the potential...
CAL MATTERS: Growers brace to give up some Colorado River water Cal Matters News January 17, 2023 6The Colorado River’s water transformed the Imperial Valley desert into one of California’s most productive farm regions. But now growers...
DWR NEWS: California’s Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations Are Key to Managing Floods and Water Supplies Department of Water Resources (DWR) News January 16, 2023 18By DWR News As California experiences more extreme swings between wet and dry periods, it is critical for the State...
DWR NEWS: When the River Rises, Weirs Get to Work Department of Water Resources (DWR) News January 12, 2023 5By DWR News Much of California enjoyed a brief break from the succession of atmospheric river storms that have drenched...
THE CONVERSATION: How California could save up its rain to ease future droughts — instead of watching epic atmospheric river rainfall drain into the Pacific The Conversation News January 6, 2023 30By Andrew Fisher, University of California, Santa Cruz California has seen so much rain over the past few weeks that...
USBR NEWS: Modifying A River Channel To Boost Salmon Productivity Bureau of Reclamation News NewsScience January 3, 2023 33Central Valley Project Improvement Act Constructs Key Habitat Features on the Sacramento River By Gary Pitzer, US Bureau of Reclamation...
LEGAL BRIEF: California Coastal Commission’s approval of Monterey desalination plant Courthouse News Service News December 30, 2022 12From Courthouse News Service: The Monterey Bay city of Marina claims the California Coastal Commission’s approval of a desalination plant...
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: When the State Cut Their Water, These California Users Created a Collaborative Solution Inside Climate News News December 26, 2022 23In a potential beacon for other parched regions, a new program allowed users to share water. By Emma Foehringer Merchant,...
CAL MATTERS: Saving salmon: Chinook return to California’s far north — with a lot of human help Cal Matters News December 19, 2022 1Urgently trying to help an endangered species devastated by drought, biologists hauled 40,000 eggs to the McCloud River this year,...
COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE: Water managers sound alarm over Colorado River Courthouse News Service News December 15, 2022 9Water managers have until the end of January to come up with voluntary plans to conserve 2 to 4 million...
DWR NEWS: How Will the Delta Conveyance Project Help Adapt to Climate Change? Department of Water Resources (DWR) News December 14, 2022 11By DWR News The proposed Delta Conveyance Project would help ensure water supply reliability for the State Water Project in...
CAL MATTERS: California drought: Water providers still predict shortages next year Cal Matters News December 13, 2022Despite December storms, water supplies remain low in many areas. Some managers expect to impose severe restrictions on their customers....
THE CENTER SQUARE: Tribal, state and federal leaders praise largest dam removal in U.S. history The Center Square News December 8, 2022 6By Madison Hirneisen | The Center Square California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and Secretary of the Interior...