MWD’s planned rate hikes to pay for WaterFix Project violate Propositions 26 and 13 From Food and Water Watch: Food & Water Watch and Center for Food Safety served a lawsuit today to challenge the Metropolitan Water District of Southern...
Presentation looks at the benefits, challenges, and risks of Metropolitan’s groundwater banking programs Beginning in the early 1990s, Metropolitan Water District established a number of groundwater storage programs in the Central Valley and on the State Water Project which have...
In recent years, invasive aquatic plants have increased exponentially in the shallow waters of California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, clogging...
The latest issue of the San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science journal is now available. In this month’s issue: ESSAY Towards Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse Recovery: Research Priorities Katherine R. Smith, Melissa K. Riley, Laureen Barthman–Thompson, Mark J. Statham, Sarah...
By Blaine Friedlander, Cornell University Despite higher-than-normal amounts of rain in early 2017, the large agricultural and metropolitan communities that...
Timothy Parker and Graham Fogg discuss the benefits and the challenges of Managed Aquifer Recharge, and how MAR can be key to water security in a changing climate Groundwater is an essential water source, providing 35% of the fresh water...
By the USGS Extensive groundwater withdrawal from the unconsolidated deposits in the San Joaquin Valley caused widespread aquifer-system compaction and...
Despite repeated assurances California has enough water to fight the currently 18 major fires raging throughout the state, the Trump administration said Wednesday it will tell its agencies to suspend environmental rules to provide firefighters with water. By Nick Cahill...
