From the Department of Water Resources: The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) today announced final decisions for groundwater basin...
A team of researchers has created a scale to characterize the strength and impacts of “atmospheric rivers,” long narrow bands...
One of the elements of the 2016 Delta Smelt Resiliency Strategy is assessing the feasibility of restoring Franks Tract. The Franks Tract feasibility study was completed and released in June of 2018 by the Department of Water Resources. The conceptual...
At the January meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, the Delta Watermaster gave his quarterly report, which included an update...
From the Bureau of Reclamation: “The Bureau of Reclamation released late yesterday the Biological Assessment for the re-initiation of consultation...
From the office of Senator Bill Dodd: Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, introduced legislation today that will help protect California’s precious water supply and ensure the vitality of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta by requiring more legislative oversight and public scrutiny of...
California Snowpack Holds More Water than Last Year *This press release was updated by DWR around 1:30pm. From the Department...
The Delta Reform Act requires ‘taking into consideration the physical changes that have occurred in the past and the future...
Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University, for The Conversation The Trump administration is proposing to redefine a key term in the Clean Water Act: “Waters of the United States.” This deceptively simple phrase describes which streams, lakes, wetlands and other water...
In September of 2018, the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) released the report, Managing Drought in a Changing Climate:...
Data shows most of the valley has experienced little to no subsidence over the past nine years, with some exceptions...
By the Army Corps of Engineers The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, South Pacific Division has approved a major deviation that allows for Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations-developed tools and concepts to be tested this winter at the pilot reservoir Lake...
Suit charges the Board with breaching federal Clean Water Act, California’s Porter Cologne Water Quality Act, and the Public Trust...
From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today announced a statewide increase in State Water...
The 2012-2016 California drought was unprecedented in severity. In the San Francisco Estuary, the drought was characterized by elevated nutrient loads, depressed zooplankton densities, enhanced Microcystis blooms, and an expansion of invasive aquatic vegetation coverage. Did wet conditions in 2017...