At the January meeting of the California Water Commission, the commissioners were given a presentation on the progress in implementing...
California’s changing climate requires residents to move beyond temporary emergency drought measures and adopt permanent changes to use water more...
At the January meeting of Metropolitan Water District’s Water Planning and Stewardship Committee, Bay Delta Initiatives Manager Steve Arakawa updated the Committee with details on the Voluntary Settlement Agreement that was proposed to the State Water Board, the renegotiated Coordinated...
Dr. Jeff Mount has a long history of involvement with science issues in the Delta. As a professor at UC...
“If there is no Drought Contingency Plan, we don’t want to leave potentially half a million acre-feet or more locked...
The latest climate change assessments show reduced Delta exports and carryover storage due to climate change likely by mid-century In the latter half of 2018, both the federal and state governments released new climate change assessments that outline the projected...
The draft of the update, just under 50 pages, is a much more trimmed down version of its predecessors and...
Panel discussion looks at groundwater-surface water interactions under SGMA from a regulatory, environmental, academic, and policy perspective The Sustainable Groundwater...
Recent developments propose significant changes to project operations that are not reflected in the modeling, they say Several letters were delivered to the California Water Fix hearing team at the State Water Board yesterday saying that in light of the...
This post has been updated with Restore the Delta’s comments added after Michael George’s presentation. Click to go there. In...
Karla Nemeth was appointed Director of the California Department of Water Resources by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. on January...
John Durand looks at the effects of the 2012-2016 drought on the Delta from the environmental, economic, and stakeholder perspectives The 2012-2016 drought is one for the records in that, while not necessarily the driest or the longest for California...
At the November meeting of the California Water Commission, agenda items included an overview of the SB 606/AB 1668 water...
DWR updates the Commissioners on the evaluation of alternative plans, basin boundary modifications, and basin prioritization At the November meeting...
Today was the first day of a two-day workshop focusing on the Delta Stewardship Council staff’s draft determination that the California Water Fix is consistent with the Delta Plan. The day began with Council staff giving an in-depth presentation on...