Every year, the Groundwater Resources Association of California selects two speakers for the David Keith Todd Lectureship, which named after...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] In 2014, California passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (or SGMA), requiring local agencies to be formed and groundwater sustainability plans to be written for all groundwater basins subject to SGMA. Those plans must avoid six undesirable results, one...
From the Desert Research Institute: Last year, Desert Research Institute (DRI) and the League to Save Lake Tahoe detected microplastics...
By Elizabeth Claire Alberts, Mongabay In 1997, Charles Moore was sailing a catamaran from Hawaii to California when he and...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: The State Water Board today issued key documents that move the Klamath River Renewal Corporation (KRRC) significantly closer to removing four dams and re-opening 360 miles of the Klamath River and its tributaries...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water The federal government has OKed a 20-year extension of a water exchange program for one...
Presentation at Kern County event discusses the implementation of the newly-adopted salt and nitrate management plan for the Central Valley...
In 2013, the Department of Toxic Substances Control’s Safer Consumer Products regulations outlined a framework for the Department to regulate product-chemical combinations that require manufacturers to evaluate alternatives. The program selects products based on the potential for exposure to a...
Dr. Jennifer Teerlink discusses pesticide regulation, monitoring, assessments, and outreach efforts The mission of the California Department of Pesticide Regulation’s...
The State Water Resources Control Board will hold a public meeting on October 16 to consider adopting a resolution approving...
There are numerous agencies involved in water quality issues that are focused on the San Francisco Bay and the Delta. In this brown bag seminar, Stephanie Fong, Interagency Ecological Program Coordinator Chair, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, discussed the...
By Rachel Becker, Cal Matters It was more than a year after the seabird died and washed up on a...
PFAS are a group of chemicals that have become ubiquitous in consumer goods – and the environment. What are they...
Combat climate change, or clean up the water? Legislators chose to dip into a greenhouse gas fund to fight California’s drinking water problem. The move alarmed environmentalists and legislators on both sides of the aisle — but it could soon...