Written exclusively for Maven’s Notebook by Robin Meadows The litany of harms from yellow starthistle, California’s most aggressive invasive weed...
Robert Shibatani is a hydrologist with 38 years of collective experience in physical hydrology, watershed resource management, and operational water...
At the June meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Dr. Jay Lund, the immediate past chair of the Delta Independent Science Board, gave a presentation on the DISB’s recently-completed Review of Water Supply Reliability Estimation Related to the Sacramento-San Joaquin...
At a December 2018 meeting of the State Water Resources Control Board, the Board was considering one of the highest-profile,...
The Southern California Water Coalition is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, comprised of leaders from a variety of businesses, cities, agricultural...
The environmental documents, due mid-summer, are about 3200 pages plus appendices In April of 2020, the Delta Independent Science Board (DISB) submitted a public comment to the Department of Water Resources on the Notice of Preparation on the Delta Conveyance...
For the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project to comply with the federal Endangered Species Act, the Bureau...
Welcome to Five Questions, a new (hopefully) weekly series that will pose five questions to folks working on California water...
Panel discusses temporary urgency change petitions, transfers, and drought litigation As California enters the second year of dry conditions, many water purveyors face minimal water supplies and have activated their drought contingency plans. So what more can an agency or...
by Alastair Bland, Estuary News Group The days when salmon and steelhead teemed in California’s coastal watersheds faded away last...
At the May 24th meeting of the State Water Resources Control Board, Delta Watermaster Michael George updated the board members...
The Delta is an intricate network of waterways, canals, and sloughs connecting the Sierra Nevada watershed with the San Francisco Bay. It is considered the hub of California’s water supply, supplying fresh water to two-thirds of the state’s population and...
Dr. Peter Moyle is a distinguished professor emeritus and Associate Director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis. ...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] In January of 2022, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) released their assessments of the groundwater sustainability plans for...
The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, or SGMA, was passed in 2014 during a period of critically dry years; the legislation was intended to stop the adverse impacts occurring due to the severe overpumping of groundwater basins. SGMA required groundwater basins...