By Hannah Frances Johansson Nicole Larson is afraid for small farmers. Before enrolling as a law student at University of California, Davis, she served a term on the Turlock City Council where she was appointed to a committee that would...
By Zachary M. Young, Hilary R. Martens, Zachary H. Hoylman, and W. Payton Gardner, University of Montana This article provides an overview of the study, Drought Characterization with GPS: Insights into Groundwater and Surface-Reservoir Storage in California, published in Water Resources Research....
Latest report shows that local agencies have made great strides under SGMA, but climate extremes pose challenges From the Department of Water Resources: On the heels of the 10-year anniversary of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) last month and...
Repeated pollution violations result in $2.38 million in mitigation payments From the San Francisco Baykeeper: Valero oil refinery and Amports, a shipping company operating at the Port of Benicia, reached an agreement with San Francisco Baykeeper over allegations that the...
Tribal and state officials say Reclamation walked back support for forbearance payments By Heather Sackett, Aspen Journalism Tribes in the upper Colorado River basin are still struggling to get compensated for water to which they are entitled but aren’t using....