An archive of articles addressing water management, ecosystem planning, climate resilience, and other solutions for managing natural resources.
Proposed Changes Ignore the Contributions and Needs of the Trinity River, Imperiling Salmon, Native Communities, and North State Fishing Economies...
As California officials craft new regulations for urban water conservation, critics who belittle the importance of these efforts are often...
Household use is a tiny fraction of California’s overall water supply, but the state wants to spend billions of dollars to make a tiny reduction in that already infinitesimal bit of water consumption. By Dan Walters, Cal Matters Stay up-to-date...
From UC Berkeley’s Rausser College of Natural Resources The 1972 Clean Water Act protects the “waters of the United States”...
By Jon Rosenfield, PhD, SF Baykeeper science director; and Eric Buescher, SF Baykeeper managing attorney California is at the forefront...
Next phase of CV-SALTS will help thousands more households with nitrate-impacted wells receive safe drinking water From the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Board: Three years after the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board launched a novel program that...
Press release from Friends of the River After providing the previously undisclosed story of the Merced River secretly running dry...
Agency’s CEQA Analysis Provides No Clear Plan for Restoring and Protecting California’s Greatest Aquatic Resource Press release from the California...
Press release from Save Our Salmon As the largest dam removal project in history unfolds on the Klamath River, conservation and social justice organizations filed a legal petition seeking a permanent instream flow requirement for the Shasta River, an important...
The California Water Commission today approved a white paper that contains potential strategies to protect communities and fish and wildlife...
January budget proposal closes a $37.86 billion shortfall while protecting key investments in education, public safety, addressing homelessness, mental health...
California’s legislative watchdog says new water conservation rules are complicated, costly and barely amount to a drop in the water-saving bucket. By Sam Ribakoff, Courthouse News Service In 2018, the California Legislature passed parallel bills to improve urban water conservation....
By Rachel Becker, Cal Matters Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters...
By Caleb Hampton, Ag Alert With the New Year comes a slew of new state and federal policies designed to...
Fish and Wildlife Service Missed Congressional Deadlines to Protect Longfin Smelt From the San Francisco Baykeeper: San Francisco Baykeeper late last week filed a lawsuit against the US Fish and Wildlife Service for violation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA)....
