Today (Wednesday) is the first day of an expected two-day public workshop on the Delta Stewardship Council’s staff draft determination...
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 to rising groundwater levels. Rising sea level will raise the level of groundwater in coastal aquifers, resulting in damage to...
In recent years, media reports and editorials have suggested that environmental regulations have made Delta outflows increasingly large, project water...
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 was prepared by Dr. David Sunding, a professor of natural resource economics at UC Berkeley. At the October meeting of...
Hearing on whether the California Water Fix is consistent with the Delta Plan is expected to last three days Today,...
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 effort to advance the conservation of the Delta, Yolo Bypass and Suisun Marsh following the state’s pivot away from the...
The headlines declared that Cape Town was on the brink of disaster. A drought in the Western Cape province of...
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 in California water news was the impending agreement on a drought contingency plan for the Colorado River. The details of...
Presentation covers what is adaptive management, why is it important, and why an adaptive management program is needed Habitat restoration...
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 District established a number of groundwater storage programs in the Central Valley and on the State Water Project which have...