Since the passage of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) in September of 2014, the Department of Water Resources (DWR)...
All the major water infrastructure bringing in water to Southern California cross the San Andreas fault at least once, sometimes multiple times. What would happen in the event of an earthquake? UCLA’s Dr. Jon Stewart (and others) have been conducting...
Lawsuit seeks to have California Waterways Identified as Hydrologically Impaired under the Clean Water Act From Downey Brand: On November...
Public comments due by January 8 Recently, the Department of Water Resources Sustainable Groundwater Management Program released a draft Best...
Proponents of water storage projects competing for Prop 1 funds present their projects to the California Water Commission The nine members of the California Water Commission have been tasked with deciding how to award the $2.7 billion in Prop 1...
Proposed definition of wetlands and procedures would greatly expand state permitting program, potentially affect recharge basins and constructed facilities, water...
DWR Director Grant Davis, State Board member Steve Moore, and SFPUC’s Steven Ritchie address conference attendees Every two years, the...
They lie washed up on the side of levees, they sit silently moored in the quiet sloughs of the Delta, even sometimes drift aimlessly down the middle of the waterways. There are hundreds of these abandoned recreational watercraft and commercial...
Update covers consumptive use study, implementation of the WIIN Act, and more … At the November meeting of the Delta...
Deputy Assistant Austin Ewell speech at ACWA conference covers a wide range of topics, including the Water Fix, implementing the...
The update to the California Water Plan will be a much shorter and more succinct document than it’s predecessors – and will be finalized by the end of 2018 The California Water Code establishes the California Water Plan as the...
The nine-member California Water Commission has been given a number of responsibilities as dictated by the California Water Code; one...
Plan to allocate the costs and benefits of the California Water Fix project among State Water Project contractors begins to...
The planned amendment to the Delta Plan’s Chapter 4 will incorporate new scientific information developed since 2013 At the time the Delta Plan was adopted in 2013, the state was pursuing a comprehensive approach to infrastructure and habitat restoration through...