From the Delta Stewardship Council: The Delta Stewardship Council will conduct a public hearing on February 26 and 27, 2026,...
Sinking Ground Puts San Joaquin Valley Water Systems at Risk By the Department of Water Resources The Department of Water...
An AI server farm tsunami threatens to overwhelm the West’s power grid and water supplies. By Jonathan Thompson, High Country News This is an installment of the Landline, a monthly newsletter from High Country News about land, water, wildlife, climate and conservation in the Western...
A new review shows how rising demand, shrinking supplies, and policy decisions together shape when groundwater use peaks and what...
In 2006, the Central Valley Regional Water Board launched the Central Valley Salinity Alternatives for Long-Term Sustainability (CV-SALTS) program to...
From California Agriculture: For most of its history, California treated groundwater and surface water as legally distinct. Unlike surface water diversions, groundwater pumping was largely unrestricted until 2014 when the state passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), which requires...
There’s a way to reduce both the climate and water harms of data centers: build them in places with lots...
By Bethany Bradley, UMass Amherst; Adrienne Wootten, University of Oklahoma, and Ryan Longman, University of Hawaii When the Trump administration...
Efforts needed to reduce data center emissions and water use, report authors say By UC Newsroom Researchers from the University of California, Riverside, found that health impacts from pollution associated with California’s computer processing data centers tripled from 2019 to...
From the Department of Water Resources: Operations have officially begun for the Big Notch Project, one of the largest floodplain...
Across all of California, perhaps no other fish has as great of a cultural, economic, and ecological impact as that...
Press release from Restore the Delta: A coalition of Tribes and environmental advocates have filed a formal appeal challenging the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) Certification of Consistency for the proposed Delta Conveyance Project (DCP), arguing the project violates...
By Monserrat Solis, SJV Water Two neighboring Kings County groundwater sustainability agencies (GSAs) released draft pumping allocation policies recently but...
Press release from River Partners Today, a major milestone in the revitalization of Battle Creek was achieved through River Partners’...
Purchase will return a rich natural landscape in the northern Washoe homelands to the ownership and care of the Washoe people through a newly formed land trust Today the California Wildlife Conservation Board awarded $5.5 million to the Wášiw-šiw Land...