Over pumping wells causes subsidence that devalues houses, UCR study finds By Dan Danelski, UC Riverside A UC Riverside study has found that as land in California’s Central Valley sinks due to excessive groundwater pumping, so do local housing values....
From the Metropolitan Water District: Wetlands project receives statutory exemption for restoration projects (SERP) The Webb Tract Wetland Restoration Project...
From the Department of Water Resources: DWR has released an approximately 30-minute lecture-style presentation video about a key concept presented in the draft BMP document: the role of critical head in managing land subsidence. Groundwater managers and practitioners may be...
By the USGS The USGS Water Resources Mission Area is assessing how much water is available for human and ecological needs in the United States and identifying where and when the Nation may have challenges meeting its demand for water....
Press release from the Yurok Tribe: The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently approved the Yurok Tribe Environmental Department’s application for Treatment...
Commentary by Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center There are obvious benefits to logging, grazing, prescribed burns, and mechanical thinning of California’s forests. When you suppress wildfires for what is now over a...
by Jacob Fischler, Stateline The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency submitted a proposal Tuesday to rescind a 2009 finding that has provided the foundation for the agency’s regulation of greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change, drawing strong opposition from Democrats...
