By Emily DeMarco, NASA Where California’s towering Sierra Nevada surrender to the sprawling San Joaquin Valley, a high-stakes detective story...
From the San Francisco Baykeeper and other organizations: A coalition of water advocates, Tribes, environmental justice organizations, and fishing organizations submitted a motion calling on the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) to cancel the Department of Water Resources’ (DWR)...
From the Metropolitan Water District: The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy hosted the...
By Edward Ring, California Policy Center A March 5 “Perspective” in the Manteca Bulletin highlights a chronically underemphasized problem impacting every...
Residents of the border city of Imperial Beach claim Veolia failed to stop dumping sewage into the Pacific Ocean and local waterways, perpetuating a public health and environmental crisis. By Sam Ribakoff, Courthouse News Service Residents of a southern San...
The relationship between topography and the terrestrial water cycle has been documented for thousands of years, yet there is still...
Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law & Graduate School Most of the United States’ major climate regulations are underpinned by one important...
Reporting by Julie Cart, Data analysis by Natasha Uzcátegui-Liggett This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. An azure jewel set more than a mile high, deep in the High Sierra, Lake Tahoe is California’s most...
A new method to evaluate deep aquifers shows even torrential rains haven’t fully replenished groundwater beneath Los Angeles. By Grace...
From DWR: California’s increasingly severe droughts are not just a challenge for water managers — they fuel extreme wildfires, threaten...
A smoldering reaction under the Chiquita Canyon Landfill in Southern California has made its neighbors’ lives miserable for almost three years. A bill that seeks to compensate them faces uncertainty amid state budget challenges and bigger LA County wildfires. By...
President Trump — once again — will rein in the nation’s 53-year-old law protecting waterways. At stake are seasonal streams,...
Benefits of the flexible water management strategy outlined in a new report By the Department of Water Resources: A new...
Water managers in the Tulare Lake, Tule and the Kaweah subbasins are discussing the possibility of creating a regional subsidence plan that would cover the three basins. By Monserrat Solis, SJV Water Subsidence, or land sinking, has been a major...