Metropolitan Board of Directors expected to vote in December At the October meeting of Metropolitan’s Water Planning and Stewardship Committee,...
The threats that sea level rise poses to coastal development from direct inundation are better understood than the threats due...
In recent years, media reports and editorials have suggested that environmental regulations have made Delta outflows increasingly large, project water exports are frequently limited or even halted by regulations to protect endangered species, and that regulations designed to protect endangered...
Panel discusses water rights and pumping allocations, groundwater recharge as a beneficial use, public trust doctrine and groundwater, and the...
In September of 2018, the Department of Water Resources released the latest economic analysis for the California Water Fix which...
Hearing on whether the California Water Fix is consistent with the Delta Plan is expected to last three days Today, the Delta Stewardship Council will begin what is expected to be a three-day public hearing on the appeal of DWR’s...
Four essential policy reforms are needed to reduce the social, economic, and environmental costs of future droughts, says Dr. Mount...
In 2016, Department of Fish and Wildlife committed to lead agencies and the Delta stakeholder community in an inclusive planning...
The headlines declared that Cape Town was on the brink of disaster. A drought in the Western Cape province of South Africa that began in 2015 resulted in severe water shortages in the region, most notably City of Cape Town. ...
Data shows groundwater recharge in the region has declined by 1.1 MAF since 2000; storage remains at unhealthy levels At...
Metropolitan’s Water Planning and Stewardship Committee discusses the drought contingency plan for the Colorado River On Wednesday, the major headline...
Presentation covers what is adaptive management, why is it important, and why an adaptive management program is needed Habitat restoration is a key strategy in the Delta Plan to achieve the coequal goal of protecting, enhancing, and restoring the Delta...
Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley Labs discuss their work on groundwater recharge, brackish desalination, and seawater desalinization As droughts intensify and...
Presentation looks at the benefits, challenges, and risks of Metropolitan’s groundwater banking programs Beginning in the early 1990s, Metropolitan Water...
The Delta Stewardship Council reports that nine appeals have been filed for the Department of Water Resources’ (DWR) July 27, 2018 certification of consistency with the Delta Plan for its California WaterFix project. The Delta Reform Act requires that any...