While California has accomplished much in reducing urban water use, opportunities still exist to reduce potable water demand by more...
A well-functioning watershed provides clean water for drinking and irrigation, healthy soils, flood protection, habitat for wildlife, and outdoor recreation opportunities. Addressing these multiple issues calls for taking a watershed management approach. No matter where you are in the world,...
[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...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] The Governor’s Water Resilience Portfolio Initiative underscores the need for communities to maintain and diversify water supplies and to protect and enhance natural environments to prepare for the impacts of climate change. At ACWA’s virtual conference held in July...
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...
On Feb. 27, 2019, an atmospheric river 350 miles wide and 1,600 miles long barreled through the sky, funneling moisture from the tropics to Sonoma County and dumping over 21 inches of rain over two days, causing the Russian River...
Damaging floods are more common in California than you might think; over the past 60 years, every county has been...
Two centuries ago, the floor of the Central Valley was largely a marshy wetland. In the springtime, the snowpack would...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: The State Water Resources Control Board is providing an opportunity for written public comments on the draft Temperature Management Plan submitted by the United States Bureau of Reclamation pursuant to State Water Board...
Californians rely on the state’s myriad of rivers and streams for things such as water supply, hydropower, recreation, fisheries, biodiversity,...
The Low-Income Water Rate Assistance Act established through Assembly Bill 401 (Dodd, 2015) directs the State Water Resources Control Board...
Recently, the Department of Water Resources, Office of Floodplain Management launched a new safety initiative called Headwaters to Floodplains which applies an integrated regional watershed management approach to the realm of flood management. The initiative is intended to enhance public...