By Anne Castle, Jack Schmidt, Eric Kuhn, Kathryn Sorensen, Katherine Tara Stored water reserves in the Colorado River system continue to decline. The mismatch...
Groundwater-driven land sinking in the San Joaquin Valley is reducing aqueduct capacity, prompting interim repairs and long-term planning. At Metropolitan Water District’s May Imported Water Subcommittee meeting, Christopher Martin, executive policy advisor for the State Water Project at the California...
With a puny snowpack in the Western mountains and a widespread drought, the nation is a tinderbox. A reorganization of federal firefighting efforts and the departure of many staff qualified to join the fight are heightening concern. By Peter Aldhous,...
At its May 20 meeting, the California Water Commission received an update on implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, with DWR officials outlining new groundwater reporting, emerging work on groundwater trading and a renewed push to address land subsidence. The...
By Ag Alert An advisory committee to the California Department of Water Resources held its first meeting last week to begin work on the next update to the California Water Plan, the state’s long-range strategy for managing water resources across...
Findings from a weight-of-evidence review of summer-fall habitat actions in the San Francisco Estuary Delta smelt are a small open-water fish found only in the San Francisco Estuary. The species was listed under the federal and state Endangered Species Acts...
