From the Department of Water Resources: Today, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) released two additional determinations on groundwater...
Dr. Flora Cordoleani is a project scientist with UC Santa Cruz and NOAA fisheries, where she conducts research to understand better the dynamics of threatened populations of spring-run chinook salmon in the Central Valley’s highly modified environment, with the objective...
From the California Water Commission: As part of the California Water Commission’s work assessing how to shape well-managed groundwater trading programs...
What are the cascading, overlapping, and compounding events caused by drought in the Delta? In early December, the California Council...
by Matt Vasilogambros, Stateline The golden hills of California have turned green in recent weeks after a series of storms delivered much-needed rain and snow to a state suffering from two years of drought. But state officials and water policy...
From the California Natural Resources Agency: A new report (below) released today conveys significant progress made in the past 18...
The Colorado River flows 1,450 miles from the Rocky Mountains to Mexico, forming the border between California and Arizona along...
By the Department of Water Resources: California is no stranger to devastating floods. With the most variable weather conditions in the country, the state receives between 40 and 60 percent of its precipitation from atmospheric rivers, a stream of water...
Successful management of California’s freshwater resources requires balancing consumptive and non-consumptive water use with fish species that depend critically on...
By Justin Fredrickson, Ag Alert California is facing an indisputable fact: We need, in a big way, to get busy...
Experimental release paves the way for multiyear supplementation program By Gary Pitzer, US Bureau of Reclamation Federal and state agencies recently took the unprecedented action of releasing captive-raised Delta smelt into the cold, murky water of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta...
California today issued emergency drought rules aimed at wasteful water use. Although snowpack is 150% of average today, climatologists predict...
By Christine Souza, Ag Alert Growing food safely has always been a priority on farms and ranches across California, as...
Hosing off driveways and excessive lawn watering could net Californians $500 fines under new emergency drought rules. By Nick Cahill, Courthouse News Service Californians will again see water-wasting rules despite a record-breaking month of snow and rain as drought regulators...