An archive of articles addressing water management, ecosystem planning, climate resilience, and other solutions for managing natural resources.
From the Office of the Governor: With California facing water shortfalls in the driest year in recorded state history, Governor...
About 800 to 1000 people rallied on the steps of the Capitol yesterday, urging Governor Brown to declare a drought...
Members of the California Democratic delegation have written a letter to Governor Brown, noting that yesterday, the House passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014 which reauthorized the Bureau of Reclamation’s Emergency Drought Relief Act program. The legislators point out...
At the December 19 Delta Stewardship Council meeting, the Council approved the membership of the Delta Plan Interagency Implementation Committee,...
In a letter to President Obama, Senator Feinstein, Senator Boxer, and Congressman Costa are calling on the President Obama to...
Assemblymember Dan Logue, along with his colleagues, Assemblymembers Beth Gaines, Ted Gaines, and Jim Nielson, have written a letter to Governor Brown, urging him to declare a drought declaration: “This water crisis is critical to millions of Californians, especially to...
From the Westlands Water District: “On Friday, January 03, 2014, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) conducted the first...
Governor Brown has directed the Department of Water Resources, the State Water Resources Control Board, the Department of Food and...
From Congressman David Valadao’s website: “Today, United States Congressman David G. Valadao (CA-21) and California Senator Jean Fuller (SD-18) joined together at a press event in Bakersfield where they delivered an update on California’s 2014 water situation and reiterated their...
With the draft California Water Action Plan expected to be finalized and released later this month, the Plan was a...
At the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) fall conference last week, the luncheon featured Natural Resources Secretary John Laird,...
Senator Feinstein and Congressman Jim Costa have written a letter to Governor Brown, requesting that he address the dry conditions by declaring a state drought emergency. Two years of dry conditions have depleted reservoirs to levels not seen since 1977,...
California Republicans have sent a letter to President Obama and Governor Brown, urging them to “take immediate action to mitigate...
From Assemblymember Anthony Rendon: “Assemblyman Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood), chair of the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee convened a hearing...
The Delta Stewardship Council held a two-day meeting in November 21-22, 2013. On the agenda for this meeting was the upcoming review of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) documents, a follow-up on the habitat restoration report released earlier this...
