An archive of articles addressing water management, ecosystem planning, climate resilience, and other solutions for managing natural resources.
From the Office of the Governor: Governor Brown, meeting with mayors from across the state, today announced he will propose...
From the State Water Resources Board: The State Water Resources Control Board’s Deputy Director for Water Rights today approved a...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: “With California’s extreme drought resulting in insufficient water to serve all water-right holders, the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) announced today that junior water-right holders in the San Joaquin River...
Update to commission includes background, an overview of existing groundwater basins, and summary of boundary issues; Public listening sessions to...
From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) has completed the Groundwater Update to the California...
DWR’s David Gutierrez and the State Water Board’s Michael Lauffer discuss the carrot and stick role of the state in implementing sustainable groundwater management The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act became effective on January 1, 2015, creating a framework for managing...
From the Metropolitan Water District: The governing board of Southern California’s primary water agency today supported Gov. Jerry Brown’s edict...
California’s new historic groundwater legislation, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, requires local agencies and stakeholders to come together to from...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: “With April snow measured at its lowest level on record, the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) announced that Californians in cities and towns reduced their water consumption by just 2.8...
The Executive Director of the State Water Resources Control Board has issued an order modifying Bay Delta standards for the...
Tim O’Halloran discusses the challenges of implementing the new groundwater legislation on the local level The provisions of the Sustainable...
This afternoon, agency officials held a media call to discuss their roles in addressing the drought as laid out in the Governor’s executive order issued this morning. John Laird, Secretary of Natural Resources, welcomed everyone to the call and introduced...
From the Office of the Governor: Following the lowest snowpack ever recorded and with no end to the drought in...
In her keynote address at Capitol Weekly’s Water 2015 conference, Senator Lois Wolk says drought is the new normal and...
From the Office of Governor Brown: Moving swiftly to help communities cope with California’s devastating drought and the ongoing effects of climate change, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today signed emergency legislation – AB 91 and AB 92 – that...
