Prior to the passage of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act last fall, groundwater disputes were typically resolved through groundwater adjudications...
An overview of how new reporting requirements, frost protection regulations, water curtailments, and some pending litigation could affect water rights...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: With California’s extreme drought resulting in insufficient water to serve all water-right holders, the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) announced today that junior water-right holders in the Sacramento River watershed...
Written by John Kingsbury, Executive Director of the Mountain Counties Water Resources Association The long history of California is embattled...
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 the Delta Plan EIR). On May 17, 2013 the Council unanimously adopted the Delta Plan implementing regulations, which are based...
A panel of lawyers discusses the appeals court ruling upholding the State Water Resources Control Board’s authority to regulate diversions...
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 Delta that includes 14 regulatory policies that were subsequently approved by the Office of Administrative Law. Following the adoption of...
By Nick McCann, Courthouse News Service A 9th Circuit panel considered whether a drainage canal is “meaningfully distinct” from the...
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 Craig Wilson and the Commission’s consideration of taking a position on Proposition 1, the water bond. This is the first...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: As the 2015 water year begins, the State Water Resources Control Board announced...
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 order and preliminary injunction in U.S. District Court against Reclamation’s release of water for the Klamath salmon. The legal memorandum...