One of the California Water Commission’s statutory responsibilities is to conduct an annual review of the construction and operation of...
The project would repurpose an existing gas and oil pipeline to pump water to municipalities across Southern California. By Nathan...
Water managers forecast future water demand for a variety of purposes, including planning future water purchases or building new infrastructure. There are several methods for estimating future water demand; the simplest and most traditional means is to estimate current per-capita...
At the February meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Watermaster Michael George updated the councilmembers on the efforts underway...
In recent months, the California Water Commission has been gathering public and expert input related to conveyance projects as part...
At the February meeting of Metropolitan’s Bay-Delta Committee, committee members were updated on the voluntary agreement process for the Bay-Delta and the Delta Conveyance Project. Update on the voluntary agreements Steve Arakawa, Bay-Delta Initiatives Manager, reviewed the voluntary agreements with...
Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) is an initiative led by the Department of Water Resources that seeks to support collaborative...
By Christine Souza, Ag Alert Bracing for potentially a second consecutive year of dry conditions, California water officials, farmers and...
While California has accomplished much in reducing urban water use, opportunities still exist to reduce potable water demand by more than 2 million acre-feet California’s annual precipitation is more variable than in any other state in the nation; it can...
A well-functioning watershed provides clean water for drinking and irrigation, healthy soils, flood protection, habitat for wildlife, and outdoor recreation...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] No matter where you are in the world, you are in a watershed. The water flowing over the land...
Dr. Ellen Bruno is a Cooperative Extension Specialist in the Department of Ag and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. At a recent Silver Solutions webinar, she shared some of the preliminary results on a paper she is working on with...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] The Governor’s Water Resilience Portfolio Initiative underscores the need for communities to maintain and diversify water supplies and to...
Sea Grant is a federal state partnership between NOAA and 34 university based programs in every coastal and Great Lakes...
Yesterday, the Executive Director of the State Water Resources Control Board sent a letter to Ernest Conant at the Bureau of Reclamation informing them that the State Water Board is rejecting Reclamation’s submitted Sacramento River Temperature Management Plan, citing insufficient...