by Robin Meadows California’s freshwater species are threatened by habitat loss and degradation, and are pushed to the brink of...
Subsidence from groundwater pumping has severely impacted land surfaces and infrastructure in parts of California. Rates of subsidence and its...
The Bureau of Reclamation is currently preparing an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to establish new operational guidelines for Lake Powell and Lake Mead beyond 2026. As part of this effort, they have developed updated hydrology datasets to evaluate how different...
by Robin Meadows The Karuk people have lived in the thickly forested mountains along the Klamath River in Northern California...
Historically, millions of salmon returned to California’s rivers each year. Today, those numbers have plummeted to a fraction of their...
Scarce flows, hungry predators, warm water, and politics conspire against salmon in the Delta, but which is the dominant stressor? Reporter Alastair Bland interrogates the science. By Alastair Bland As California’s Chinook salmon fishing season sits on pause for the...
By John Hart Every few years, it seems, we remember Suisun Marsh. Not that this unique middle chamber of the...
Two years ago, the Colorado River Lower Basin states united to conserve an extra 3 million acre-feet of water by...
By Robin Meadows Five years ago, Plains Miwok cultural practitioner Don Hankins got a surprising invitation from Russ Ryan, a project manager at the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. The agency owns four islands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River...
At the May meeting of the California Water Commission, representatives from the Inland Empire Utilities Agency, the project proponent for...
Proposition 1 of 2014 dedicated $2.7 billion for investments in water storage projects, which the California Water Commission administers through...
Golden mussels, an invasive mollusk, pose a significant threat to natural ecosystems and water infrastructure due to their ability to form dense colonies. First identified in the Delta in October 2024, these invasive mussels are highly adaptable, tolerating a wide...
Climate Change is bringing warmer and wetter storms, reducing our snowpack and increasing the need for more storage. At the...
NOTEBOOK FEATURE: COEQWAL and Just Transitions: Innovative projects tackle California’s water future
Second series of workshops for the Just Transitions project to take place on June 7 and June 9 California is...
California is adapting to increasingly intense storm patterns, largely driven by atmospheric rivers. These narrow bands of concentrated water vapor transport immense amounts of moisture from the tropics, often resulting in heavy rain or snow when they reach land. By...