The San Francisco Estuary watershed is characterized by periods of both wet and dry. But the dry seems to be...
By Jane Berg and Rachel Sender, co-published with the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute At the end of 2022, 65...
Human-driven changes in gravel and salmon size impact spawning success by Tiffany Dobbyn, UC Davis Chinook salmon are facing unprecedented challenges as their once-thriving populations struggle to survive. A new study published in the journal Ecosphere suggests that decades of...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Two powerful California agencies have jumped into the legal fight over flows in the lower...
By Zhe Li, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the...
At Supreme Court next week, agency authority returns to center stage By Kelsey Reichmann The Supreme Court’s upcoming review of the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory authority over wastewater discharge pollution is likely to highlight bitter divides over the court’s role...
By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water A last-resort attempt to shore up funding for ongoing Friant-Kern Canal repairs has run into...
Tribe Receives $18 Million to Restore Newly Accessible Salmon Spawning Tributaries Press release from the Yurok Tribe Building on the...
From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) has released a Discussion Draft Implementation Plan and Guidelines for the Delta Conveyance Project’s Community Benefits Program (CBP). The implementation plan provides more detail about how the CBP could...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water The powerful, and politically right-leaning Westlands Water District recently teamed up with left-leaning democratic assemblymember...
By Monserrat Solis, SJV Water Regulatory challenges and increasing water demands are shifting pressures and creating fierce resource competition in...
For nearly 50 years, the agrochemical conglomerate was the sole producer of polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs in the United States. By Hillel Aron, Courthouse News Service Monsanto has agreed to pay the city of Los Angeles $35 million to settle...
By Gabriel Lade, Macalester College About 23 million U.S. households depend on private wells as their primary drinking water source....
Today, the Delta Tribal Environmental Coalition (DTEC), represented by the Environmental Justice Law and Advocacy Clinic at Yale Law School,...
From the Department of Water Resources: Water rights in California can be complicated. As a part of the Delta Conveyance Project, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) filed a petition with the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board)...