An archive of articles addressing water management, ecosystem planning, climate resilience, and other solutions for managing natural resources.
Delta Watermaster Michael George updates the Delta Stewardship Council on the activities of his office and the State Board...
By Elizabeth Warmerdam, Courthouse News Service The city of Riverside is fighting California’s order to cut its water use by...
From the California Water Impact Network (C-WIN), Restore the Delta, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, and AquAlliance: On 3 June 2015, The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA), California Water Impact Network (C-‐WIN), AquAlliance and Restore the Delta (RTD), collectively “Petitioners,” filed...
Reclamation, DWR, and Yolo County official report on progress on integration efforts in the Yolo Bypass In between Sacramento and...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: With a mandatory average conservation rate of 25 percent beginning this month for...
Tom Howard, Executive Director of the State Water Resources Control Board, has sent a letter to Ron Milligan at the Bureau of Reclamation, temporarily suspending the Sacramento River Temperature Management Plan approved on May 14th until further notice. The temperature...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: Today the State Water Resources Control Board approved a proposal from riparian water...
From the Bureau of Reclamation: The Bureau of Reclamation and water users in California’s Central Valley have forged an agreement...
The Chair of the Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee talks about the current drought, Prop 1 funds, and what water legislation is on the horizon for the legislature in 2015 At the 2015 ACWA Spring Conference, the speaker for...
Governor Brown addresses ACWA convention, calling on California’s brain power and innovation to solve the state’s water issues, and touching...
CCWD’s Leah Orloff and Delta farmer Steve Mello discuss how the drought is affecting operations within the Delta The April...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: The State Water Resources Control Board today approved an amendment to the state’s Water Quality Control Plan for the Ocean Waters of California (Ocean Plan) to address effects associated with the construction and operation...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: With emergency drought conditions persisting throughout California, the State Water Resources Control Board...
Karla Nemeth from the Natural Resources Agency and Ellen Hanak from the PPIC discuss the state’s response to the drought:...
The State Water Resources Control Board has posted the revised draft emergency regulations to achieve 25% conservation, along with a fact sheet and the proposed urban usage tiers. The regulations, if enacted as written, would achieve 1.3 MAF of conserved...