The latest bend in a decades-long battle has the federal government working to restore protections undone by the Trump administration...
By Christine Souza, Ag Alert Against the backdrop of what’s shaping up as a devastating drought year, the California Department...
At the Kern County Water Summit held last week, hosted by the Water Association of Kern County, Acting Deputy Director of the Department of Water Resources Statewide Groundwater Management Program Steven Springhorn provided an update on the Department’s progress on...
The Local Government Commission and the Groundwater Exchange are excited to launch a three-part webinar series to share key learnings...
The California Water Commission has released its White Paper – A State Role in Financing Conveyance to Meet Climate Change...
From the Department of Water Resources: In response to worsening drought conditions in California, today the Department of Water Resources (DWR) began construction on a temporary emergency drought barrier on the West False River in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The...
From the Department of Water Resources: The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) today released its first assessments of...
At the May meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Dr. Steve Brandt, Chair of the Delta Independent Science Board, provided...
This month, Pearls digs into some nuances of Delta smelt monitoring—and how we can get more bang from our sampling buck—in three related articles from San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science. Plus, new research on salmon survival and flow volume....
State Water Board’s Erik Ekdahl discusses the climate change report; Attorney Valerie Kincaid explains why existing water right holders are...
Prepared Exclusively for Maven’s Notebook by Robert Shibatani Summer is officially only 3 weeks away, but it looks like we...
From the State Water Board: On June 1, 2021, the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) issued an order that approves, subject to conditions, the changes requested in a Temporary Urgency Change Petition (TUCP) filed by the California...
From the State Water Board’s Administrative Hearings Office: On December 2, 2020, the Administrative Hearings Office (AHO) of the State...
With most of the state gripped by extreme dryness, some conditions are better, some worse, than the last record-breaking drought....
From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) undertook the Your Delta, Your Voice survey to gather input from Tribal members and disadvantaged, minority, low-income, and otherwise underrepresented community members who live or work in the Delta. The objective...