An archive of articles addressing water management, ecosystem planning, climate resilience, and other solutions for managing natural resources.
The only debate on HR 5781 California Emergency Drought Relief Act of 2014 apparently was in the House Rules Committee...
On Tuesday, Rep. David Valadao, R-Hanford, introduced new federal drought legislation, HR 5781, as a last-ditch effort to get federal...
From the California Water Impact Network (C-WIN): House “Drought Relief” Guts Environmental Protections, Does Not Mitigate Drought – Legislation Would Drain State Reservoirs for the Benefit of Corporate Farms: HR 5781, a bill introduced Tuesday in the House of Representatives...
Received via email: Today, Northern California Representatives Jared Huffman (D-02), George Miller (D-11) Mike Thompson (D-05), Doris Matsui (D-06),...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: After leveling off in September, statewide residential water conservation receded in October to...
From Congressman Valadao’s office (via email): “On Tuesday, December 2, 2014, Congressman David G. Valadao (CA-21), with the support of California House Republicans, introduced water legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives aimed at providing short- term relief from California’s...
At the November meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, council members heard from numerous agency and water officials on how...
In May of 2013, the Delta Stewardship Council unanimously adopted the Delta Plan, a comprehensive, long-term management plan for the...
From Senator Feinstein’s office: Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today released the following statement on progress toward a bipartisan bill to address California’s ongoing drought: “Over the past several weeks I have been working closely with members of the California delegation...
From the Natural Resources Defense Council: As dreams of a wet, El Niño winter fade and California heads into a...
Dr. Peter Goodwin is an internationally recognized expert in ecohydraulics, ecosystem restoration, and the enhancement of river, wetland and estuarine...
Dr. Anke Mueller-Solger is the Associate Director for Projects at the U.S. Geological Survey. Prior to joining the USGS last year, Dr. Mueller-Solger was the Interagency Ecological Program Lead Scientist for six years. In this second speech from the plenary...
The 8th Biennial Bay-Delta Science Conference, held October 28 through 30th, 2014 in Sacramento, brought together over 1000 scientists, managers...
At the October meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Supervising Engineer Dustin Jones provided the council with a monthly update...
Yesterday, voters approved Proposition 1, the water bond, by a significant margin. Here’s what agencies and organizations had to say, listed in alphabetical order: From the Association of California Water Agencies: Timothy Quinn, executive director of the statewide Association of...
