In recent years, invasive aquatic plants have increased exponentially in the shallow waters of California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, clogging...
The Delta Stewardship Council reports that nine appeals have been filed for the Department of Water Resources’ (DWR) July 27, 2018 certification of consistency with the Delta Plan for its California WaterFix project. The Delta Reform Act requires that any...
By Blaine Friedlander, Cornell University Despite higher-than-normal amounts of rain in early 2017, the large agricultural and metropolitan communities that...
On Friday, Secretary Zinke issued a memo calling for specific actions to be taken within 15 days to maximize Central Valley Project deliveries, including streamlining ESA and NEPA consultations, reassessing legal interpretations, identifying infrastructure upgrades, and preparing legislative and litigation...
By the USGS Extensive groundwater withdrawal from the unconsolidated deposits in the San Joaquin Valley caused widespread aquifer-system compaction and...
Kamyar Guivetchi on the importance of the Flood MAR concept and what DWR and other state agencies are doing to advance the concept Flood-MAR is an integrated water resource management strategy that uses flood waters resulting from rainfall or snowmelt...
At the July meeting of the Metropolitan’s Special Committee on the Bay Delta, committee members received an update on the California Water Fix project, including a report on the recent meetings of the Delta Conveyance Design and Construction Agency and...
Proposition 1 Funds Conditionally Committed to Add 4.3 Million Acre-Feet of Storage Capacity From the California Water Commission: Eight proposed projects that would boost California’s water storage capacity by 4.3 million acre-feet are in line to receive nearly $2.7 billion...
