Members of the Colorado River Water Users Association met for their annual conference in Las Vegas Wednesday. By Jacob Walters, Courthouse News Service What happens when a water source that provides more than 40 million people with drinkable water runs...
Press release from the Colorado River Board of California: Colorado River water users in California have together voluntarily conserved more than 1.2 million acre-feet of water in just two years, adding the water to Lake Mead to help stabilize the...
By Charles Wilson, Executive Director of the Southern California Water Coalition We can’t escape our history. In 1984, the Southern California Water Coalition (SCWC) was founded in response to the ballot-box defeat of the Peripheral Canal, a predecessor to today’s...
First forecast of the season based on current reservoir storage and impacts of record-setting summer heatwaves From the Department of Water Resources: Today, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced an initial State Water Project (SWP) allocation forecast of five...
As climate change brings sudden shifts between extreme drought and catastrophic floods, water policy experts urge state resource managers to take a new approach. By Liza Gross, Inside Climate News California officials regularly tout their global leadership on climate, yet...