From the Department of Water Resources: Today the Delta Stewardship Council (DSC) affirmed that the Department of Water Resources’ (DWR) planned geotechnical investigations are not a “Covered Action” under the Delta Reform Act. Therefore, the DSC dismissed all appeals on the grounds that it does not have...
By Dan Walters, Cal Matters It would be impossible to overstate the complexity of water supply management in California. Hundreds of federal, state and local agencies decree who or what is supplied with water, when and how much will be...
By Guananí Gómez-Van Cortright & Ariel Rubissow Okamoto In 1999, regional managers vowed to restore 100,000 acres of tidal wetlands in the San Francisco Estuary by 2030. More than two decades later, over 53,000 acres have been or are in...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Kern water managers’ struck out again on their fourth attempt to write an adequate plan to protect the region’s groundwater, according to a report from state Water Resources Control Board staff released Tuesday, which recommends...
Wildlife biologist Miguel Ordeñana explains how blazes push animals into the unknown. By Kylie Mohr, High Country News Note: This story was updated to include information about where people can document how wildlife are responding to the wildfires. People weren’t...
