With Inauguration Day looming, the lame-duck Trump administration continues to spend political capital on weakening the Endangered Species Act, the...
In the bigger picture, this study was motivated by the very practical question of what happens to rainwater when falling...
In this edition of the Society and Natural Resources Journal: Sustainable Groundwater Management in California: A Grand Experiment in Environmental Governance “Good Luck Fixing the Problem”: Small Low-Income Community Participation in Collaborative Groundwater Governance and Implications for Drinking Water Source...
Defending the decision to give farm irrigation districts permanent access to low-cost, federally pumped water in California, a Justice Department...
Nick Jacobs is a shareholder with Somach Simmons & Dunn. who has been practicing law for about 20 years and...
Panel discussion outlines challenges facing disadvantaged communities and small water systems The Water Resilience Portfolio directs the Water Commission to assess the state’s role in financing conveyance projects that could help meet the needs in changing climate. In recent months,...
From the Delta Counties Coalition: The Delta Counties Coalition (DCC) warned members of the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) Board that...
Presentations highlight San Diego CWA’s Regional Water Conveyance System Study, addressing California Aqueduct subsidence, and the San Joaquin Valley Water...
New climate projections could inform long-term wildfire and water resources management strategies in California and Nevada. By Sarah Stanley, EOS Recent years have seen the largest, most destructive wildfires on record in California. Accompanying these extreme events have been extreme...
Study assesses climate change risks to the Delta’s vulnerable communities, ecosystems, water supply, and flood management [cmtoc_table_of_contents] Delta Adapts: Creating...
From the Department of Water Resources: With California off to a dry start for the water year, the California...
Prepared exclusively for Maven’s Notebook by Robert Shibatani The first two months of the new 2020-2021 water-year (WY) have been dry, without substantial precipitation accumulations across the CVP. The last notable accumulations were on November 18th. Precipitation totals for the...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] At the November meeeting of the California Water Commission, Commissioners were briefed on subsidence issues with the California Aqueduct...
In the latest issue of Estuary Pearls: As organizations and agencies scramble to preserve the Central Valley’s dwindling Chinook salmon...
From the Association of Wetland Managers: There is general agreement among restoration professionals that the science exists to achieve restoration goals and that wetland restoration performance will improve if certain barriers are addressed. Many lessons have been learned over the...