By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water Water managers from eight groundwater agencies in Tulare County are pushing back against a state Water Resources Control Board staff’s report that they have not done the work to earn a “good guy” pass from...
By Ariel Rubissow-Okamoto Scientists experimenting with placing mounds of dredged sediment in the shallows near marshes to see if it helps them build up elevation in the face of sea level rise have more promising results. As reported in this...
Commentary by the California Water Impact Network (C-WIN) Two terms are often used by legal and policy experts when discussing water consumption: safe yield[1] and sustainable yield.[2] They are sometimes used interchangeably, and they describe the same general concept: the amount of...
Over the past several years, the Colorado River Basin states have been working, with limited success, on guidelines that will take effect next year when the current guidelines expire. But given the deteriorating hydrology, basin states’ discussions now focus on...
Three years of cancelled salmon seasons have devastated the industry. Now, salmon fishing is expected to finally reopen. Will it be enough for the industry to survive? By Rachel Becker, Cal Matters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up...
