An archive of articles addressing water management, ecosystem planning, climate resilience, and other solutions for managing natural resources.
Despite repeated assurances California has enough water to fight the currently 18 major fires raging throughout the state, the Trump...
Proposition 1 Funds Conditionally Committed to Add 4.3 Million Acre-Feet of Storage Capacity From the California Water Commission: Eight proposed...
“Any proposal to exempt water projects from judicial review would violate due process and undermine public confidence,” he writes. Secretary Laird send this letter today to members on the Senate and House committees on appropriations: “I am writing to express...
Amendments to H.R. 6147 would strike language prohibiting lawsuits against California water projects including WaterFix Today, Congressmen Jerry McNerney (CA-09),...
Earlier today, the State Water Board released the draft final documents for the Bay Delta Plan update for the Lower...
Proposition 1 Funds Will Be Awarded to Expand State’s Water Storage Capacity From the California Water Commission: The California Water Commission approved final application scores over the past two days for eight proposed water storage projects, clearing the way to...
From Senator Feinstein’s office: Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), ranking member of the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee, today issued...
In 2014 California enacted the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) which mandates that areas that depend upon groundwater achieve sustainability...
“We’re facing big challenges ahead of us and big solutions are required to meet those challenges head on,” she says The Bureau of Reclamation is the largest wholesale provider of water in the country and the second largest producer of...
From the Office of the Governor: Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today signed SB 606 by Senator Robert Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys)...
In 2016, Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 1755, the Open and Transparent Water Data Act, which requires the Department of...
Lawsuit alleges Council violated the Delta Reform Act and the California Environmental Quality Act by amending the Delta Plan to give the tunnels priority over restoring the Bay-Delta From the Center for Biological Diversity: A coalition of environmental groups today...
From the California Water Commission: The California Water Commission today released the next round of staff-recommended scores for eight proposed...
Panel at ACWA Conference discusses unimpaired versus functional flows and the potential for voluntary settlements The State Water Board is...
From Congressman John Garamendi’s office: Today, Congressman John Garamendi, a longtime opponent of the California WaterFix who served as Deputy Secretary of the Interior under President Bill Clinton, critiqued language in the Fiscal Year 2019 Interior and Environment appropriations bill...
