On Feb. 27, 2019, an atmospheric river 350 miles wide and 1,600 miles long barreled through the sky, funneling moisture...
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 melt, swelling the rivers beyond their banks and casting young fish out onto the floodplains where they would stay for...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: The State Water Resources Control Board is providing an opportunity for written public...
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 (State Water Board) to prepare a plan, in collaboration with the State Board of Equalization, that covers funding and implementation...
Recently, the Department of Water Resources, Office of Floodplain Management launched a new safety initiative called Headwaters to Floodplains which...
Green infrastructure can be a resilient, multi-benefit approach to address issues such as urban runoff pollution and climate change adaptation....
Historically, the San Joaquin River has supported large chinook salmon populations. However, since the Bureau of Reclamation’s Friant Dam on the San Joaquin River became fully operational in the 1940s, much of the river’s water has been diverted from the...
The San Francisco Estuary Partnership periodically reports on the health of the estuary, producing the State of the Estuary report...
While considerable progress has been made to improve flood management in the Central Valley, the vast region still faces significant...
DeDe D’Adamo, Karla Nemeth, and Susan Tatayon give their thoughts about going forward in the Delta in a panel discussion moderated by Ellen Hanak The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is the complex and fragile hub of California’s water supply system, providing...
Dr. Rachel Johnson discusses the interconnectedness of the San Francisco’s freshwater, estuarine, and marine systems The San Francisco Estuary is...
In her address to the State of the Estuary conference, Felicia Marcus spoke about the connections of the Delta to...
The Department of Water Resources (DWR) has been undergoing reorganization for several reasons, one of those being to create an institutional structure to support landscape level planning and implementation of multi-benefit projects that focuses on the Delta and the Central...