The State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights has posted online the information obtained as a requirement of...
From the Delta Stewardship Council: On May 16, 2013 the Delta Stewardship Council unanimously adopted the Delta Plan (after certifying...
A panel of lawyers discusses the appeals court ruling upholding the State Water Resources Control Board’s authority to regulate diversions in the Russian River watershed by riparian water rights holders for the purposes of frost protection The Russian River is...
Lawyers discuss the history and importance of reasonable use law, and ponder its future use The California Water Law Symposium,...
In May of 2013, the Delta Stewardship Council unanimously adopted the Delta Plan, a comprehensive, long-term management plan for the...
By Nick McCann, Courthouse News Service A 9th Circuit panel considered whether a drainage canal is “meaningfully distinct” from the Klamath River in a 17-year-old Clean Water Act suit. The group ONRC Action brought a citizen suit against the U.S....
Jim Brobeck, water policy analyst for AquAlliance, interviewed water rights attorney Michael Jackson for a radio show which broadcast on...
On September 25th, the Delta Protection Commission met in Discovery Bay. On the agenda, an update from retiring Delta Watermaster...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: As the 2015 water year begins, the State Water Resources Control Board announced today that curtailed water right holders in the Sacramento, San Joaquin, Russian and Eel river watersheds will be able to...
Press release from the Center for Biological Diversity: A California judge has struck down the environmental review of the Kern...
The San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority and the Westlands Water District has filed a motion for a temporary restraining...
From U.C. Davis: “California has allocated five times more surface water than the state actually has, making it hard for regulators to tell whose supplies should be cut during a drought, University of California researchers reported. The scientists said California’s...
From the California Sporfishing Protection Alliance, this press release: The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) has filed a formal complaint...
Westlands Water District alleges water being acquired through transfers and exchange agreements is being unlawfully diverted by south and/or central...
At the July 22 meeting of Metropolitan Water District’s Special Committee on the Bay-Delta, attorney Becky Sheehan updated committee members on the State Water Resources Control Board’s activities as they relate to the Bay Delta. She began with a little...