DWR’s LandFlex Pilot Program has saved over 100,000 acre-feet of groundwater and protected 16,500 drinking water wells in California’s frontline...
By Ellen Bruno and Nick Hagerty, UCANR California is now ten years into a revolution in groundwater management. In 2014, the state passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) which requires newly formed local groundwater sustainability agencies to develop long-term...
From the Department of Water Resources: California is now collecting more groundwater data than ever before as highlighted in the...
From the Office of Governor Newsom: Today, Governor Newsom and the Department of Water Resources released a new report showing that the...
From USGS Ecosystems Land Change Science Program: USGS researchers are leveraging advances in satellite-based monitoring to better characterize and predict flood inundation, which is essential for effective emergency response and water management planning. Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are long corridors of...
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Ben Livneh, University of Colorado Boulder, The Conversation Picture a wildfire raging across a forested mountainside. The smoke billows and the flames rise. An aircraft drops vibrant red flame retardant. It’s a dramatic, often dangerous scene. But the threat to...
Notice from the State Water Board: The State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board or Board) Administrative Hearings Office...
By Don Wright, Water Wrights The Water Blueprint for the San Joaquin Valley met in person at Fresno State University’s...
From Restore the Delta: Lawmakers on the Joint Legislative Audit Committee (JLAC) are set to reconsider a full audit of the Department of Water Resources’ spending on the Delta Conveyance Project (DCP) at an upcoming hearing. The vote for the...
A new water market model for the Colorado River basin could improve water security and restore ecosystems amid intensifying shortages....
Conservationists demand that the state reevaluate the physical and legal availability of water taken by subdivisions from the San Pedro...
Even flawed models are helping scientists unlock new truths about our changing planet. By Ryan O’Loughlin, Yale Climate Connections Our knowledge of future climate change is largely dependent on complex computer simulation models. These models are huge – they are...