ACWA/State Water Board webinar presentation outlines temporary and permanent options, including a new streamlined permitting pathway for standard water rights...
Plus a brief update on the voluntary agreements, and good news on the Colorado River Recently, the Department of Water...
Recently, the Department of Water Resources, Office of Floodplain Management launched a new safety initiative called Headwaters to Floodplains which applies an integrated regional watershed management approach to the realm of flood management. The initiative is intended to enhance public...
The California Water Law Symposium is on my short list of not-to-be-missed events on my yearly calendar. The symposium is...
Recently, the Department of Water Resources posted a short video providing an overview of the California Environmental Quality Act and...
An update on the development of a regional plan to monitor the restoration of tidal marshes in the San Francisco Bay Area The monitoring of tidal wetlands in the Bay Area has typically been implemented on a project-by-project basis in...
Status of the negotiations for the State Water Project contract amendment for Delta Conveyance also discussed At the January meeting...
WSIP Program Manager Amy Young updates commissioners on project schedule, progress on the projects, and how the projects will be...
Green infrastructure can be a resilient, multi-benefit approach to address issues such as urban runoff pollution and climate change adaptation. A substantial number of stormwater green infrastructure projects have been built in the Bay Area over the last two decades...
Presentation at Kern County event discusses the implementation of the newly-adopted salt and nitrate management plan for the Central Valley...
A joint workshop hosted by the Department of Water Resources and the State Water Board provides details on how incoming...
On January 3, State agencies released a draft Water Resilience Portfolio which outlines more than 100 integrated actionable recommendations in four broad areas that are intended to help California cope with more extreme droughts and floods, rising temperatures, declining fish...
Historically, the San Joaquin River has supported large chinook salmon populations. However, since the Bureau of Reclamation’s Friant Dam on...
Microplastics are ubiquitous and persistent pollutants in the ocean, and a pervasive and preventable threat to the health of marine...
The San Francisco Estuary Partnership periodically reports on the health of the estuary, producing the State of the Estuary report which assesses the status of various parameters of the ecosystems of both the San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin...