An archive of articles addressing water management, ecosystem planning, climate resilience, and other solutions for managing natural resources.
As California’s precipitation becomes more erratic due to climate change, the state needs more tools, including more storage capacity, to...
The state’s environmental tool skews which communities are designated as disadvantaged, researchers say. Some immigrant neighborhoods could be left out,...
A comprehensive OECD Environmental Policy Paper on wildfire risk, policy, and strategy in the United States explains how to incorporate climate change in wildfire adaptation efforts. From the USGS: Extreme wildfire events like the 2018 Camp Fire, the 2020 August...
California’s fertile Sacramento delta region has long been central to debates over how to best manage California’s water resources and...
The proposed regulation will phase out fracking in the light of increasing public concern about the practice and its contribution...
Proposed Changes Ignore the Contributions and Needs of the Trinity River, Imperiling Salmon, Native Communities, and North State Fishing Economies A not-so-funny thing happened when the State Water Resources Control Board decided to update its Bay-Delta Plan, the document that...
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...
From UC Berkeley’s Rausser College of Natural Resources The 1972 Clean Water Act protects the “waters of the United States” but does not precisely define which streams and wetlands this phrase covers, leaving it to presidential administrations, regulators, and courts...
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...
Press release from Friends of the River After providing the previously undisclosed story of the Merced River secretly running dry in 2022 for a bombshell piece written by Raymond Zhong of the New York Times, Friends of the River (FOR)...
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...
The California Water Commission today approved a white paper that contains potential strategies to protect communities and fish and wildlife in the event of drought. The white paper is in support of Water Resilience Portfolio Action 26.3, and will be...
