An archive of articles addressing water management, ecosystem planning, climate resilience, and other solutions for managing natural resources.
Quarterly update from the CV-SALTS program The CV-SALTS program has achieved many key milestones heading into 2024. The biggest news...
Researchers say if California could collect and treat more stormwater in cities, it could provide enough water to supply a...
Proposition 1 of 2014 dedicated $2.7 billion for investments in water storage projects, which the California Water Commission administers through the Water Storage Investment Program (WSIP). Seven water storage projects were selected and must complete the remaining requirements, including final...
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 Lois Henry, SJV Water The main topic at the January 2024 meeting of the North Kern Water District was...
By Jon Rosenfield, PhD, SF Baykeeper science director; and Eric Buescher, SF Baykeeper managing attorney California is at the forefront...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water After three years, more of the Central Valley is being folded into the state’s nitrate control program. But program managers and environmental justice advocates say there are still serious problems with outreach. The state’s nitrate...
