From the Office of the Governor: “With California’s driest months ahead, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today issued an executive...
An archive of articles addressing water management, ecosystem planning, climate resilience, and other solutions for managing natural resources.
The Merced Irrigation District has petitioned the State Water Resources Control Board and has received conditional approvals for Temporary Urgency...
Karen Ross, Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture, gave an update on the drought during her testimony at an Assembly budget subcommittee last week where she detailed the impacts the drought is having on agriculture. Ms. Ross began...
On March 18, the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water held an informational oversight hearing on groundwater. In this...
From Senator Dianne Feinstein: On February 11, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) introduced the California Emergency Drought Relief Act with Senators...
From the office of Congressmember George Miller: “In response to California’s ongoing drought and the State’s immediate need for increased water storage capacity and long-term water solutions, U.S. Reps. George Miller (CA-11) and Jim Costa (CA-16) introduced new legislation today...
On March 18, the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water held an informational oversight hearing on groundwater. In this...
From Stanford University’s Water in the West: “A new report by Water in the West at Stanford University calls attention...
On March 18, the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water held an informational oversight hearing on groundwater. In this portion of the hearing, Andrew Fahlund with the California Water Foundation discussed the issues that need to be considered as...
On March 18, the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water held an informational oversight hearing on groundwater. On the...
The 2014 California Water Policy Seminar Series, presented by the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences and the law school’s...
Although the concept of ‘reconciliation ecology’ was articulated by Michael Rosenzweig in the early 2000s, the idea of coming together to resolve the challenges of human development and ecosystem health at the edges of the San Francisco Bay has been...
Senator Feinstein, along with Congressmembers Ken Calvert, Jim Costa, Jeff Denham, Kevin McCarthy, Devin Nunes and David Valadao have written...
From the Golden Gate Salmon Association, the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, SBCSFA, Natural Resources Defense Council, Defenders of...
The San Joaquin River Exchange Contractors, the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority, and the Friant Water Authority have sent a letter to Secretary Sally Jewell and Secretary Penny Pritzker requesting emergency relief from pumping restrictions due to impending storm...