Integrating consumptive use with environmental flows is a core challenge for water management. Regulatory methods for protecting instream flows have...
Water managers forecast future water demand for a variety of purposes, including planning future water purchases or building new infrastructure. There are several methods for estimating future water demand; the simplest and most traditional means is to estimate current per-capita...
At the February meeting of Metropolitan’s Bay-Delta Committee, committee members were updated on the voluntary agreement process for the Bay-Delta and the Delta Conveyance Project. Update on the voluntary agreements Steve Arakawa, Bay-Delta Initiatives Manager, reviewed the voluntary agreements with...
Report presents staff recommendations for incorporating climate change into water rights permitting California’s climate is changing rapidly, and historical data...
At the 2021 California Irrigation Institute Conference, the keynote speaker was Wade Crowfoot, the Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency. For the last two years, Secretary Crowfoot has overseen California’s forests and natural lands, rivers and waterways, coast and...
Panel at PCL’s Environmental Assembly focuses on the lack of progress on the Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan update and the voluntary agreements Note: This panel discussion focuses on the lack of progress on the Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan...
Screening process for potential new Water Storage Investment Program projects At the December 2020 meeting, the California Water Commission approved...
The Delta Conveyance Project is the Newsom Administration’s plan to construct a tunnel and other facilities that would carry water from the Sacramento River to State Water Project facilities in the south Delta. The Delta Conveyance Project has a long...
