At the January meeting of Metropolitan Water District’s Water Planning and Stewardship Committee, Bay Delta Initiatives Manager Steve Arakawa updated...
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 up in Lake Mead if we go into shortage,” says General Manager Jeff Kightlinger At today’s meeting of the Water...
The latest climate change assessments show reduced Delta exports and carryover storage due to climate change likely by mid-century In...
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 Management Act defines sustainable groundwater management in terms of avoiding six undesirable results defined in the legislation: declining groundwater levels,...
Recent developments propose significant changes to project operations that are not reflected in the modeling, they say Several letters were...
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 10, 2018. As the Director, she oversees DWR operations, including maintaining the California State Water Project, managing floodwaters, monitoring dam...
John Durand looks at the effects of the 2012-2016 drought on the Delta from the environmental, economic, and stakeholder perspectives...
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 of the California Water Commission, staff from the Sustainable Groundwater Management Program at the Department of Water Resources updated the...
Today was the first day of a two-day workshop focusing on the Delta Stewardship Council staff’s draft determination that the...
Day 1 of the workshop on the Delta Stewardship Council staff’s draft determination has ended with Chair Randy Fiorini calling...
Today (Wednesday) is the first day of an expected two-day public workshop on the Delta Stewardship Council’s staff draft determination that there is not enough evidence in the record to support the Department of Water Resources’ determination that the California...