Is a state plan to update Delta water rules double counting restoration of water and habitat? By Alastair Bland A...
Conservationists say that a chemical used by car tire manufacturers in the U.S. is leaching into waterways and killing protected fish species. By Margaret Attridge, Courthouse News Service A chemical additive in car tires is leaching into rivers and other...
From the University of Colorado at Boulder: Assigned Water programs in the Colorado River system, like Intentionally Created Surplus and...
From the USGS: The San Francisco Bay and Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta Estuary (hereafter, Bay-Delta) is the largest estuary on the...
Studies show salmon double in size with better access to food sources produced on floodplain habitats, improving health during outward migration Press release Marking one of the largest salmon releases of its kind, a coalition of rice farmers, fishermen, water...
A 2015 law required the state Department of Toxic Substances Control to overhaul its permitting process to consider how multiple...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Reliable access to water remained a dominant factor in agricultural land valleys in Kern County...
Carbon is the foundation of the Delta’s peat soils and a key component of two major greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, which persists in the atmosphere indefinitely, and methane, a short-lived but highly potent greenhouse gas. Since the 1850s, draining the...
A new computational model reveals that prescriptive water conservation in three US cities would be less effective under severe climate...
By the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center The erodibility of bed sediment in estuaries can shape everything from...
Why California turned to University of Texas at Arlington after devastating wildfires By Brian Lopez, University of Texas at Arlington Once the flames are extinguished after a wildfire, the results can have major impacts on water quality. Adnan Rajib, an...
Combining direct measurements with artificial intelligence methods, a new map estimates groundwater depth across the contiguous United States at a...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water One of several “causes of action” was cut out of the ongoing Kern River case...
From the State Water Board: The letter below responds to the December 22, 2025 letter from the Department of Water Resources (DWR) to the Administrative Hearings Office (AHO) of the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board or Board)....
