The Department of Water Resources (DWR) has been undergoing reorganization for several reasons, one of those being to create an...
Water and Land Use From the Local Government Commission: In 2005, the California Legislature passed new laws that enable communities to...
A business hoping to cash in on an untapped aquifer beneath the Mojave Desert will have to clear extra environmental reviews before it can sell the water, under legislation signed late Wednesday by California Governor Gavin Newsom. By Nick Cahill,...
Living in earthquake country makes planning and emergency preparedness critical. Taking steps to prepare for the worst is important. Understanding...
On April 29, 2019, Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-10-19 that directed the secretaries of the California Natural Resources Agency,...
Climate change is having a profound impact on California’s water resources, as evidenced by greater weather extremes, reduced snowpack, higher sea level, and changes in river flows. Models predict that more precipitation will fall as rain instead of snow, exacerbating...
Panel of Delta project managers discuss how they apply adaptive management in their projects Adaptive management is defined in the...
One of the elements of the 2016 Delta Smelt Resiliency Strategy is assessing the feasibility of restoring Franks Tract. The...
Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University, for The Conversation The Trump administration is proposing to redefine a key term in the Clean Water Act: “Waters of the United States.” This deceptively simple phrase describes which streams, lakes, wetlands and other water...
By the Army Corps of Engineers The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, South Pacific Division has approved a major deviation...
The draft of the update, just under 50 pages, is a much more trimmed down version of its predecessors and...
Four essential policy reforms are needed to reduce the social, economic, and environmental costs of future droughts, says Dr. Mount California’s climate is changing. Hotter temperatures, a shrinking snowpack, shorter and more intense wet seasons, rising sea level, and more...
In 2016, Department of Fish and Wildlife committed to lead agencies and the Delta stakeholder community in an inclusive planning...
Dr. Kurt Schwabe discusses the impact of water conservation on recycled water; Yorba Linda Water District GM discusses effects of...
Earlier today, the State Water Board released the draft final documents for the Bay Delta Plan update for the Lower San Joaquin River and southern Delta, as well as a framework document for Sacramento River and Delta. Both the final...