The Environmental Protection Agency argues that it didn’t need to consult with other agencies because states and territories aren’t obligated to adopt its scientific recommendations. By Monique Merrell, Courthouse News Service A battle over federal recommendations easing the limit of...
From the California Water Impact Network: The California Water Impact Network (C-WIN) has released a short video on the dire threat posed by Governor Newson’s proposed Delta Tunnel project to the largest estuary in the continental United States – and the people who live...
California frequently experiences multi-year droughts, a natural aspect of our highly variable climate. However, climate change intensifies both the frequency...
Severely dry conditions during the winter of 2013-2014 blocked some species of salmon and steelhead trout from accessing their breeding grounds, wiping out the populations of individual tributaries and even entire watersheds. By Kara Manke, UC Berkeley A single severely...
By Claire Griffiths, UCLA States across the Colorado River Basin are squandering a critical opportunity to ease the region’s historic water crisis, according to a new report by UCLA and the Natural Resources Defense Council. The sweeping analysis reveals that...
In the ongoing research of the Santa Ana Sucker (Pantosteus santaanae) USGS scientists try out different sampling methods. By the California Water Science Center The Santa Ana Sucker (SAS) is listed as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The...
