An archive of articles addressing water management, ecosystem planning, climate resilience, and other solutions for managing natural resources.
The election of Joe Biden sparked a wave of optimism in wildlife advocacy organizations that the worst is over, but...
Integrating consumptive use with environmental flows is a core challenge for water management. Regulatory methods for protecting instream flows have...
The Northern California Water Association Annual Meeting was held on March 5, 2021. The theme was ‘Ridgetop to River Mouth Water Management.’ For the opening session, Thad Bettner facilitated a discussion between Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot and Deputy Secretary...
A week doesn’t go by without someone saying there are water wars underway or about to kick off in California....
Huge gaps exist in scientific knowledge, but California is about to set the world’s first health guidelines for microplastics in...
Stakeholders all said they wanted better communication, but data and SB-88 compliance are a problem In 2014 and 2015 during a period of severe and persistent drought conditions, then-Governor Brown had declared a state of emergency and signed urgency legislation...
At the 2021 California Irrigation Institute Conference, the keynote speaker was Wade Crowfoot, the Secretary of the California Natural Resources...
From the California Water Commission: The California Water Commission has increased the potential funding amounts for two groundwater storage projects...
Presentation at NID’s January board meeting focuses on the benefits of water supplier’s participation in the voluntary agreement process At the January 13, 2020 meeting of the Nevada Irrigation District, David Guy from the Northern California Water Association gave a...
Panel at PCL’s Environmental Assembly focuses on the lack of progress on the Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan update and...
Screening process for potential new Water Storage Investment Program projects At the December 2020 meeting, the California Water Commission approved...
A federal judge in Montana said Donald Trump’s EPA failed to demonstrate why an eleventh-hour rule barring the use of scientific studies to inform agency decision needed to be implemented immediately. By Matthew Renda, Courthouse News Service A federal judge...
By Christina Souza, Ag Alert Despite pleas from winery owners and their representatives—one of whom described the wine sector as...
Governor Gavin Newsom today submitted his 2021-22 State Budget proposal to the Legislature totaling $227.2 billion. Here are some of...
The California Water Commission is in the process of assessing the state’s role in financing commands projects that could help meet the needs in a changing climate as tasked by action 19.4 in Governor Newsom’s water resilience portfolio. This work...
