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NOTICE: State Water Board conditionally approves USBR’s Sacramento River Temperature Management Plan
The State Water Resources Control Board has conditionally approved the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Final Sacramento River Temperature Management Plan (TMP) submitted on June 24, 2025, as described below. Tags Infrastructure Shasta Dam Region/Location Sacramento River Water project operations Shasta...
Alpine rain and snow take much longer to percolate into western U.S. streams than previously thought, adding complexity to long-standing...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water The Kern County Water Agency is asking the 5th District Court of Appeal to order...
By Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Water Policy Center When it comes to building water supply infrastructure, even if regulations are streamlined and litigation is contained, there are massive costs. Quantifying these variables is...
People in the nation’s richest strawberry-growing region have lacked safe drinking water for decades. A Biden administration grant promised them...
The White House said changes issued under the National Environmental Policy Act would simplify an “overly burdensome process.” Critics accused...
Land subsidence along the California Aqueduct is threatening the ability of the State Water Project to deliver water, an important piece of infrastructure for millions of Californians. The recently released addendum to the 2023 SWP Delivery Capability Report from the...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Residents of a development hundreds of miles north of Kern County on Saturday approved a...
What you need to know: California has invested billions of dollars to fight fires and treated millions of acres to...
By Scott Hayman, chair of the Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Authority. This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California is at a groundwater management crossroads as legal loopholes threaten to undo the state’s progress toward responsible...
By Dan Walters, Cal Matters This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Jerry Brown once...
By Carolee Krieger, C-WIN Year in and year out, decade after decade, through gubernatorial administrations of both parties, Californians have...
A federal judge agreed that a 2016 law requires the Bureau of Reclamation to convert short-term contracts into permanent ones without imposing additional conditions or review. By Edvard Pettersson, Courthouse News A federal judge agreed on Monday with the U.S....