An archive of articles addressing water management, ecosystem planning, climate resilience, and other solutions for managing natural resources.
Each month, the Water Hub is checking in with advocates and organizers in California to talk about the water issues...
From the Office of the Delta Watermaster: The Office of the Delta Watermaster, the three Delta Water Agencies, and many...
Over the years, the state has established three Delta-focused agencies, each with different missions and responsibilities: The Delta Stewardship Council, the Delta Protection Commission, and the Delta Conservancy. In this post, I’ll tell you what these agencies do and what...
At the January meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Watermaster Michael George updated the Council on curtailment and reporting...
Each month, the Water Hub is checking in with advocates and organizers in California to talk about the water issues...
From the Department of Water Resources: California has reached a major milestone in its implementation of the landmark Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) has completed the official assessments for the first-ever groundwater sustainability plans...
From the Planning and Conservation League: Summers are getting hotter. Rain and snowpack are disappearing, and water reserves are shrinking....
The Department of Water Resources filed its Certification of Consistency for the Lookout Slough Tidal Habitat Restoration and Flood Improvement...
By Christine Souza, Ag Alert Farming and ranching families in the Scott River and Shasta River watersheds say drought emergency curtailment regulations adopted by the state last August will threaten their livelihoods if water supplies run out as the state...
The California Water Plan is the state’s strategic plan for sustainably managing and developing water resources for current and future...
In the fall of 2021, the Delta Stewardship Council held a series of four webinars focusing on the social and...
From the California Water Commission: As part of the California Water Commission’s work assessing how to shape well-managed groundwater trading programs with appropriate safeguards for vulnerable water users, Commission staff will present a draft white paper containing preliminary findings and next steps for...
From the California Natural Resources Agency: A new report (below) released today conveys significant progress made in the past 18...
California today issued emergency drought rules aimed at wasteful water use. Although snowpack is 150% of average today, climatologists predict...
By Christine Souza The atmospheric river storm that brought some rain and snow to the parched state may serve as a reminder that California is still waiting to build planned infrastructure for storing water in wet years for use in...
