Press release from Yolo County: Today, Yolo County has taken the necessary step of filing a lawsuit against the California...
Some documents and agreements that govern operation of the river basin expire in 2026. By Bob Leal, Courthouse News Service...
Switching from hydropower to fossil fuels during droughts has led to higher carbon emissions and cost 11 Western states tens of billions of dollars over the past two decades, Stanford research finds. By Emily Hanlon, Stanford News When drought-stricken rivers...
By Hiba Baroud, Vanderbilt University Heavy rainfall in the Northeast on June 9-11, 2023, generated widespread flooding, particularly in New...
Center for Watershed Sciences Director Andrew Rypel talks the importance of — and paths ahead for — California’s dams By...
From the Western Environmental Law Center, Friends of the Shasta River, and the Environmental Protection Information Center: Late yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled against a federal “Safe Harbor” program on California’s Shasta River...
From the Department of Water Resources: On May 17, 2023, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced the official launch...
By Robin Meadows As a New York Times columnist once quipped, “California’s water system might have been invented by a...
Draft siting and streamlining criteria developed as part of state’s multipronged Water Supply Strategy From the State Water Resources Control Board: As part of California’s all-of-the-above strategy to address an anticipated 10% reduction in its water supply by 2040 due...
The environmental costs of ending water diversions from Mono Lake to Los Angeles would be mixed: It might help a...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water A new groundwater fee intended to create “financial equity” between farmers who pay for imported...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water The question of whether Lake Isabella might “spill” has now turned to whether it will fill. The lake is achingly close to being full. It stood at 528,663 acre feet as of Wednesday afternoon –...
By Kenneth Schrupp | The Center Square The California Assembly Committee on Water, Parks, and Wildlife today passed a bill...
Environmental Summit focuses on how rapidly changing environment is expected to increase litigation and present thorny legal issues By Blaine...
By Merrill Balassone, California Courts Newsroom He’s been called a “water renaissance man.” Justice Ronald Robie has dived into the issue from every corner of California government—as a Legislative consultant writing key water policy, as director of the state Department...