From the Desert Research Institute: Farm vehicles are becoming so heavy that they jeopardize future food security in Europe, America...
By Alex Brown, Stateline As the Western United States endures an ongoing megadrought that has spanned more than two decades,...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] In January of 2022, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) released their assessments of the groundwater sustainability plans for the critically overdrafted groundwater basins, approving eight of them and determining twelve to be incomplete. Those basins have until July...
By Matt Vasilogambros, Stateline The California Coastal Commission last week unanimously rejected a private company’s proposal to build a desalination...
Regulation would boost water savings starting in June From the State Water Resources Control Board: With intensifying drought causing the driest...
The commission, in a marathon session today, killed a proposed desalination plant in Huntington Beach that’s been debated for more than 20 years. By Rachel Becker, CalMatters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The...
Despite a historical drought in California, Coastal Commissioners prevented a desalination plant from moving forward, defying the governor and regional...
By Robert Glennon, University of Arizona Journalists reporting on the status and future of the Colorado River are increasingly using the...
The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, or SGMA, was passed in 2014 during a period of critically dry years; the legislation was intended to stop the adverse impacts occurring due to the severe overpumping of groundwater basins. SGMA required groundwater basins...
By Christine Souza, Ag Alert Facing a third year of drought, leadership from county Farm Bureaus, spanning all regions of...
By Ching Lee, Ag Alert This time of year, the Sacramento Valley should be buzzing with tractors working the soil...
By Edgar Sanchez, Ag Alert For decades, scientists have poked deep holes a few miles apart across the California landscape, seeking to better understand the characteristics of the state’s 515 groundwater basins in hopes of better managing and protecting them....
At the April meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen highlighted research on juvenile salmon...
From the San Francisco Estuary Institute: In partnership with the Delta Stewardship Council, the San Francisco Estuary Institute has developed...
State and federal agencies join to save native salmon from drought, climate change State and federal biologists have begun moving endangered adult winter-run Chinook salmon to the upper reaches of Battle Creek and threatened spring-run Chinook salmon to Clear Creek...