[cmtoc_table_of_contents] The Governor’s Water Resilience Portfolio Initiative underscores the need for communities to maintain and diversify water supplies and to...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District has posted Public Notice SPK-2019-00899 to www.spk.usace.army.mil/Media/RegulatoryPublicNotices.aspx The California Department of Water...
What is needed is a “Grand Bargain” between all parties on the Delta tunnel, confirmed in legislation, to apportion water for exports and ecological flow. By Bruce Babbitt, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Gov. Gavin Newsom recently released his...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] Back in April of 2020, the Delta Independent Science Board (DISB) submitted a letter to the Department of Water...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] The groundwater sustainability plans that were submitted to the Department of Water Resources in January of 2020 were the...
Hotter temperatures from climate change will likely mean the worst megadrought the region has ever seen. By Nicholas Iovino, Courthouse News Service Climate change is pushing the western United States and northern Mexico toward an extreme long-term drought that could...
Supreme Court lets stand decision upholding Delta Stewardship Council’s authority for sustainable management of the Delta From the Delta Stewardship...
At the July meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, councilmembers heard briefings on the activities of the Delta Protection Commission...
The California Advisory Committee on Salmon and Steelhead Trout (CAC) was re-established by the Legislature in 1983 in response to public concern about declining populations of salmon and steelhead. The role of the public committee is to advise the Director...
The Bureau of Reclamation has proposed raising the Shasta Dam and is seeking public input on the Shasta Lake Water...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] At the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) virtual conference last week, one of the keynote speakers was the...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] At the ACWA’s virtual conference held last week, the second keynote speaker session featured Joaquin Esquivel, Chair of the State Water Resources Control Board, and Karla Nemeth, Director of the Department of Water Resources. Chair Esquivel’s comments focused on...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] At the end of July, Metropolitan Water District’s Special Committee on the Bay-Delta held a meeting; the main agenda...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] Wade Crowfoot has been the Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency since January 2019 and oversees an agency...
By Ariel Dinar, Doug Parker, Helen Huynh, and Amanda Tieu, Giannini Foundation Of Agricultural Economics The California water sector faces many challenges and demonstrates the ability to adapt. With a water-dependent economy, the state of California’s water sector is very...