At the November meeting of Metropolitan’s Bay-Delta Committee, Bay-Delta Initiatives Manager Steven Arakawa briefed the committee members on recent communications...
While the negotiations have not yet started for the new guidelines for the management of the Colorado River, the lower basin states (California, Nevada, and Arizona) still have been meeting regularly to discuss the response to the worsening drought conditions,...
At the September meeting of the California Water Commission, Daniel Whisman, principal engineer and program manager for DWR’s California Aqueduct Subsidence Program, updated the Commissioners on the Department’s ongoing efforts to address subsidence impacts to the aqueduct, including the status...
Within the Central Valley, over seven million acres is in irrigated agriculture, and depending on the conditions, water discharged from the site may carry nutrients, pesticides, and pathogens off-site and into water bodies or aquifers. The Central Valley Water Board’s...
Written by Robin Meadows San Francisco Estuary Institute ecologist Letitia Grenier has already led projects on working with nature toward large-scale restoration in both the San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Now, with a 2021 Delta Stewardship Council...
Informational webinar discusses fish and aquatic species analysis, fish screens, and operating criteria The Department of Water Resources (DWR) hosted four informational webinars between July and September 2021 to provide background information related to the preparation of the Draft Environmental...
