An archive of articles addressing water management, ecosystem planning, climate resilience, and other solutions for managing natural resources.
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...
Governor Brown addresses ACWA convention, calling on California’s brain power and innovation to solve the state’s water issues, and touching on water conservation, almonds, and the tunnels, and more … At the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) Spring Conference...
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...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: With emergency drought conditions persisting throughout California, the State Water Resources Control Board Tuesday adopted an emergency regulation requiring an immediate 25 percent reduction in overall potable urban water use statewide in accordance...
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...
From the Office of the Governor: Governor Brown, meeting with mayors from across the state, today announced he will propose legislation to help local officials better enforce conservation requirements and will direct state agencies to streamline environmental review of local...
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,...
Update to commission includes background, an overview of existing groundwater basins, and summary of boundary issues; Public listening sessions to start next week In September of 2014, Governor Brown signed a package of three bills which has come to be...
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...
From the Metropolitan Water District: The governing board of Southern California’s primary water agency today supported Gov. Jerry Brown’s edict for mandatory conservation by voting to restrict wholesale deliveries to its 26 member public agencies to help save water and...