Draft EIS on the Central Valley Project sidesteps state law regulating groundwater pumping and omits water conservation potential A recently...
Report reinforces immediate need for infrastructure investments, respond to changing climate Press release from the State Water Contractors Yesterday, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) released the final 2023 State Water Project Delivery Capability Report (DCR). The report highlights...
State Water Project Report Shows How Water Managers are Preparing for Drought, Extreme Weather, and Future Water Supply Conditions Amidst...
Proposed changes hinge on managing releases and diversions from Shasta Reservoir From the Bureau of Reclamation: The Bureau of Reclamation...
By Robin Meadows A decade ago, California fish advocates and water suppliers seldom crossed paths except as entrenched opponents in a court of law. Worse, both sides often drew opposite conclusions from the same science on how the state’s massive...
by Theo Whitcomb, High Country News When the largest dam removal in U.S. history began on the Klamath River this...
Newsom Administration’s Latest Water Gambit: “Nothing to see here, folks.” From the Department of Water Resources: A recently released draft...
For the Department of Water Resources: With California experiencing extreme swings between severe drought to torrential rain, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) wanted to see if the State Water Project’s largest reservoir, Lake Oroville, had shrunk (or lost storage...
The Department of Water Resources has released a report summarizing the construction, monitoring, effectiveness, and impacts of the 2021–2022 West...
Sites would be completely filled to 1.5 million acre-feet of water over the past 2 years if it was operational...
A new study maps how energy and food systems depend on stored water to generate hydropower and feed irrigation. Dams and reservoirs won’t be able to meet the demand in coming decades. As demand for food and energy grows, water...
The Department of Water Resources has released the draft State Water Project Delivery Capability Report for 2023, which provides information...
A federal judge ruled that Coyote Valley Dam’s flood control operations stir up sediment in the water, which can harm...
From the Delta Science Program: At the request of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the Delta Science Program has completed the facilitation of an independent scientific peer review of Reclamation’s Fish and Aquatic Effects Analysis for the long-term operations (LTO)...