The Department of Water Resources has released a report summarizing the construction, monitoring, effectiveness, and impacts of the 2021–2022 West...
The Department of Water Resources has released the draft State Water Project Delivery Capability Report for 2023, which provides information about the key factors affecting the operation of the State Water Project and its long-term capability to continue delivering water....
From DWR News: As California experiences more weather extremes due to climate change, planning for the future will be critical...
Groundwater is intimately connected with the landscape and land use that it underlies. How land is developed above can change...
From the California Natural Resources Agency: The California Natural Resources Agency has submitted its 2024 Annual Report on the Salton Sea Management Program (SSMP) to the State Water Resources Control Board, prepared in compliance with Order WR 2017-0134. The report...
From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today released its Resource Guide for Funding Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) Implementation. ...
The report recommends policies, programs and tools for agricultural resilience. By Patty Guerra, UC Merced Water is among the most...
In 2017, a nationwide assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey found that brackish groundwater in the nation’s aquifers is more than 800 times the amount currently used yearly. California’s Coastal Basin and Central Valley aquifers contain close to 7 billion...
From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today released its Groundwater Well Permitting: Observations and...
New technique allows recharge to occur under existing crops at 100% efficiency To address declining groundwater levels throughout the State,...
A comprehensive OECD Environmental Policy Paper on wildfire risk, policy, and strategy in the United States explains how to incorporate climate change in wildfire adaptation efforts. From the USGS: Extreme wildfire events like the 2018 Camp Fire, the 2020 August...
From the Department of Water Resources: To help Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) appropriately address depletions of interconnected surface water (ISW)...
In a new report, U.S. Geological Survey scientists working in collaboration with the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) have laid the...
From the Delta Stewardship Council: The Delta Science Program is excited to share an executive summary for the 2022 edition of the State of Bay-Delta Science (SBDS), which explored the latest scientific understanding of plants and algae in the Bay-Delta...