An archive of articles addressing water management, ecosystem planning, climate resilience, and other solutions for managing natural resources.
On Friday, Secretary Zinke issued a memo calling for specific actions to be taken within 15 days to maximize Central...
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 projects that would boost California’s water storage capacity by 4.3 million acre-feet are in line to receive nearly $2.7 billion...
“Any proposal to exempt water projects from judicial review would violate due process and undermine public confidence,” he writes. Secretary...
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 San Joaquin River and southern Delta, as well as a framework document for Sacramento River and Delta. As part of...
Proposition 1 Funds Will Be Awarded to Expand State’s Water Storage Capacity From the California Water Commission: The California Water...
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 by 2040. Meeting the requirements of SGMA will mean a net reduction in groundwater overdraft of about 2 million acre-feet...
“We’re facing big challenges ahead of us and big solutions are required to meet those challenges head on,” she says...
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 Water Resources, in consultation with the California Water Quality Monitoring Council, the State Water Resources Control Board, and the Department...
Lawsuit alleges Council violated the Delta Reform Act and the California Environmental Quality Act by amending the Delta Plan to...
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 expected this year to adopt proposed changes to the Water Quality Control Plan for the San Francisco Bay/ Sacramento-San Joaquin...
