The Epic California Drought as Viewed from Space Dr. Jay Famiglietti is a hydrologist and a professor of earth system...
Yesterday, Governor Jerry Brown lifted the drought emergency declaration for most of the state and state agencies released a final...
From the State Water Board: As Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. ended the drought state of emergency in most of California today, state agencies released a long-term plan to better prepare the state for future droughts and make conservation a...
From the Office of the Governor: Following unprecedented water conservation and plentiful winter rain and snow, Governor Edmund G. Brown...
Dr. Lisamarie Windham-Myers is an ecosystem ecologist specializing in wetlands. As an ecosystems ecologist, she works across a broad spectrum...
A new nationwide assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey suggests that the nation’s brackish groundwater could help stretch limited freshwater supplies. This study, the first of its kind in more than 50 years, found that the amount of brackish groundwater...
To implement the California Water Fix project, the Bureau of Reclamation and Department of Water Resources must obtain the State...
ACWA’s newly adopted policy on Delta flows also briefly presented At the March meeting of Metropolitan’s Special Committee on the...
The latest issue of the San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science journal is now available online. This special issue focuses on the Central Valley Joint Venture. Despite massive losses of habitat, the Central Valley’s wetlands, riparian forests, and grassland–oak savannah...
The State Water Resources Control Board announced today it is awarding more than $20 million in an initial round of...
From the Department of Water Resources: With every monthly measurement of the California snowpack this winter, the state’s rebound from...
A small Indian reservation that’s become a major economic force in the desert south of Phoenix has sued the Central Arizona Water Conservation District for refusing to deliver what the tribe considers its annual allotment from the Colorado River. By...
The Science Enterprise Workshop was held on November 1-2, 2016, at UC Davis and brought together scientists and science-policy experts...
DWR’s Jim Wieking briefs California Water Commission on the report concept and what’s in it; also an update on the...
Tunnel opponents weigh in on Delta Stewardship Council’s proposed Delta Plan amendment on conveyance
Council meeting in Brentwood draws full house It was standing room only for the Delta Stewardship Council’s March meeting, held last Thursday in Brentwood, as Restore the Delta, Save the California Delta Alliance, and other opponents of the California Water...