On Feb. 27, 2019, an atmospheric river 350 miles wide and 1,600 miles long barreled through the sky, funneling moisture...
With water availability being an important concern, water managers often use water budgets to quantify and manage water resources. A...
Damaging floods are more common in California than you might think; over the past 60 years, every county has been declared a state or federal flood disaster area multiple times. Central Valley levees have failed on more than 70 occasions...
Webinar takes a deep dive into the state of salmon and steelhead, and provides recommendations for resiliency In 2005, the...
Congressman Garamendi pushes for consideration of a western alignment for Delta conveyance; DWR responds In his scoping comments for the...
Two centuries ago, the floor of the Central Valley was largely a marshy wetland. In the springtime, the snowpack would melt, swelling the rivers beyond their banks and casting young fish out onto the floodplains where they would stay for...
Delta stakeholder group provides history of Delta water quality planning and expresses their concerns over the voluntary agreements In mid-April...
The Pajaro Valley is home to a billion-dollar agricultural industry, it’s rich, fertile soil providing fruits and vegetables for the...
Compared to most coastal river systems, the Klamath River is upside down. It starts slow and high among the farmlands of eastern Oregon; as it flows through Northern California toward the Pacific, its basin narrows and turns mountainous, eventually reaching...
At the end of March, the Department of Fish and Wildlife issued a new “Incidental Take Permit” (or ITP) for...
Kristin Sicke is the Assistant General Manager for Yolo County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, which manages water supplies...
Ted Grantham is a Cooperative Extension Specialist at UC Berkeley and the CalTrout Ecosystem Fellow with the Public Policy Institute of California. He studies water, climate, and water management with a focus on the environmental consequences of the ways in...
Eric Averett is General Manager with the Rosedale-Rio Bravo Water Storage District, which is one of several water districts within...
One of the long-running controversies in California water is the effort to raise Shasta Dam, a dam on the Sacramento...
Understanding and conveying groundwater’s role in a changing world Surface water commonly is hydraulically connected to ground water, but the interactions are difficult to observe and measure and have largely been ignored in water-management considerations and policies. However, the Sustainable...