An archive of articles addressing water management, ecosystem planning, climate resilience, and other solutions for managing natural resources.
The Chair of the Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee talks about the current drought, Prop 1 funds, and what...
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 meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council included an update on the continuing drought and its impacts. In the last installment...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: The State Water Resources Control Board today approved an amendment to the state’s Water...
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: What is the state doing and what could it do better? At the April 23rd meeting of the Delta Stewardship...
The State Water Resources Control Board has posted the revised draft emergency regulations to achieve 25% conservation, along with a...
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 request from the state’s two major water projects to allow more efficient transfers of water south of the Delta to...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: “With California’s extreme drought resulting in insufficient water to serve all water-right holders,...
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 Water Plan Update 2013 with essential data, information and analyses that will be important to the successful implementation of a...
DWR’s David Gutierrez and the State Water Board’s Michael Lauffer discuss the carrot and stick role of the state in...
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 Groundwater Sustainability Agencies and to develop plans to manage their groundwater basins in a sustainable fashion – no easy task....
