By Harrison Tasoff, UC Santa Barbara Against the backdrop of global warming, sea level rise and extreme weather, it’s reassuring...
By Sarah Whichello, Oak Ridge Associated Universities Research Participant with EPA. Estuaries are waterbodies where freshwater from the uplands mixes with the salty waters of the open ocean. The bays, inlets and tidal rivers along a coastline that comprise estuarine...
By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water The legal fracas over who should pay to fix the sinking Friant-Kern Canal grew Friday...
By Christine Souza, Ag Alert California water officials are taking another step forward as part of a broader process to...
Part of the permit’s implementation will include methods for environmental restoration and spawning projects to benefit endangered species like the Chinook salmon. By Alan Riquelmy, Courthouse News Service A new operating permit issued Monday for California’s State Water Project is...
A balanced approach is key to benefiting California’s endangered fish species through habitat restoration, improved flow measures, monitoring, and hatchery...
Press release from the State Water Contractors Today, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and the California Department...
The golden mussel’s appearance in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is its first confirmed detection in North America — and it has the potential to clog major water supply pumps. By Alastair Bland, Cal Matters Stay up-to-date with free briefings on...
By Jacob Margolis, LAist This article was originally published by LAist on 10/30/2024. Over the past decade, about 67 million...
The Department of Water Resources has posted the final EIR for the Long-Term Operation of the State Water Project in...
Low counts of spawning salmon could mean another year without fishing. Experts say the outlook still has time to turn around. By Alastair Bland, Cal Matters Farmers can estimate the size of a harvest months in advance by counting the...
From the California Natural Resources Agency: California is advancing restoration projects, streamflows for native fisheries, and a science plan in...
By NASA Summer heat has significant effects in the mountainous regions of the western United States. Melted snow washes from...
A series of USGS interactive maps have recently been published. The maps identify locations and levels of mercury contamination resulting from historical gold mining California’s Sierra Nevada. From the USGS: Many may not know that mercury was used by miners...