The appeals allege numerous inconsistencies with Delta Plan policies and say piecemealing the project is inconsistent with CEQA Last Friday,...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water Residents and advocates in the small community of Fairmead have been working for years to...
Higher temperatures can cause droughts even with normal precipitation Higher temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change made an ordinary drought into an exceptional drought that parched the American West from 2020-2022, according to a new study by scientists from the University...
From the Delta Stewardship Council: The following parties have appealed the California Department of Water Resources Certification of Consistency (C20242)...
A lot is at stake with the new Trump administration: California’s water projects, its unique authority to clean its air,...
Loss of forest canopy and deposition of ash alter forest hydrology By Mitch Tobin, Water Desk As the American West warms, there’s a growing intersection between wildfires and the mountain snowpack that supplies the bulk of the water in many...
By Harrison Tasoff, UC Santa Barbara Against the backdrop of global warming, sea level rise and extreme weather, it’s reassuring...
By Sarah Whichello, Oak Ridge Associated Universities Research Participant with EPA. Estuaries are waterbodies where freshwater from the uplands mixes...
By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water The legal fracas over who should pay to fix the sinking Friant-Kern Canal grew Friday when three Tulare County irrigation districts sued the Friant Water Authority for imposing steep fees on the districts approved through...
By Christine Souza, Ag Alert California water officials are taking another step forward as part of a broader process to...
Part of the permit’s implementation will include methods for environmental restoration and spawning projects to benefit endangered species like the...
A balanced approach is key to benefiting California’s endangered fish species through habitat restoration, improved flow measures, monitoring, and hatchery production From the Department of Water Resources: Addressing the dual challenges of climate change impacts and endangered species protections, the...
Press release from the State Water Contractors Today, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and the California Department...
The golden mussel’s appearance in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is its first confirmed detection in North America — and it...
By Jacob Margolis, LAist This article was originally published by LAist on 10/30/2024. Over the past decade, about 67 million gallons of fire retardant have been dropped on wildfires across California, according to the U.S. Forest Service. If you’ve ever...