The San Francisco Estuary watershed is characterized by periods of both wet and dry. But the dry seems to be...
By Jane Berg and Rachel Sender, co-published with the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute At the end of 2022, 65 percent of the Western United States was in severe drought, the result of a two decades long mega drought in...
Human-driven changes in gravel and salmon size impact spawning success by Tiffany Dobbyn, UC Davis Chinook salmon are facing unprecedented...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Two powerful California agencies have jumped into the legal fight over flows in the lower...
By Zhe Li, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the sky that bring heavy rain and storms to the U.S. West Coast and many other regions – are shifting toward...
At Supreme Court next week, agency authority returns to center stage By Kelsey Reichmann The Supreme Court’s upcoming review of...
By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water A last-resort attempt to shore up funding for ongoing Friant-Kern Canal repairs has run into...
Tribe Receives $18 Million to Restore Newly Accessible Salmon Spawning Tributaries Press release from the Yurok Tribe Building on the success of the winter planting, the Yurok Tribe’s Fisheries Department revegetation crew initiated phase two of a massive revegetation project...
From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) has released a Discussion Draft Implementation Plan and...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water The powerful, and politically right-leaning Westlands Water District recently teamed up with left-leaning democratic assemblymember...
By Monserrat Solis, SJV Water Regulatory challenges and increasing water demands are shifting pressures and creating fierce resource competition in the San Joaquin Valley that will affect Kings County’s future, according to one speaker at the State of Kings County...
For nearly 50 years, the agrochemical conglomerate was the sole producer of polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs in the United States....
By Gabriel Lade, Macalester College About 23 million U.S. households depend on private wells as their primary drinking water source....
Today, the Delta Tribal Environmental Coalition (DTEC), represented by the Environmental Justice Law and Advocacy Clinic at Yale Law School, together with the California Indian Environmental Alliance, San Francisco Baykeeper, and Golden State Salmon Association, submitted a formal statement with...