[cmtoc_table_of_contents] At the July meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. John Callaway updated the Council on...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] The Delta Stewardship Council established the Delta Plan Interagency Implementation Committee (DPIIC) after the adoption of the Delta Plan...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] The details of how a groundwater sustainability plan will be implemented are defined by the setting of sustainable management criteria (or SMC). With several undesirable results to consider, a range of technical analyses to perform, data gaps yet to...
Tim Quinn spent more than ten years as the executive director of the Association of California Water Agencies and more...
The implementation phase of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act has now begun for the basins designated as critically-overdrafted. Getting to...
At the end of January of this year, the state’s critically overdrafted groundwater basins submitted their adopted groundwater sustainability plans (or GSPs), meeting an important deadline in the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act; the remaining basins subject to SGMA will be...
Friends of the River co-founder Mark Dubois and current Executive Director Eric Wesselman discuss the protections for California rivers and...
At the June meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Watermaster Michael George gave his quarterly update where he discussed...
Dr. Thomas Harter provides a basic understanding of groundwater – what it is, how much groundwater is out there, how fast groundwater moves, and where it comes from and where it goes [cmtoc_table_of_contents] Groundwater is an important part of California’s...
In October 2019, the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) released the report, Priorities for California’s Water, which outlined California’s...
Presentation discusses the GSP review process and highlights tools, resources, and assistance for GSAs Since the legislature passed the Sustainable...
California water law is complex, governed by both state and federal law, part property law and part environmental law. The system incorporates a traditional water rights riparian system with the appropriative system found elsewhere in the West with the result...
Water Code section 165 requires the California Water Commission to conduct an annual review of the construction and operation of...
On May 8, the Bureau of Reclamation and Friant Water Authority released a draft environmental impact statement/environmental impact report for...
On Feb. 27, 2019, an atmospheric river 350 miles wide and 1,600 miles long barreled through the sky, funneling moisture from the tropics to Sonoma County and dumping over 21 inches of rain over two days, causing the Russian River...