Floating wetlands sound like something straight out of a fairy tale, fanciful landscapes where the laws of nature are suspended....
The appeals allege numerous inconsistencies with Delta Plan policies and say piecemealing the project is inconsistent with CEQA Last Friday,...
The October meeting of the California Water Commission included an update on the seven projects progressing through the Water Storage Investment Program. Program Manager Amy Young gave the update. Proposition 1 of 2014 dedicated $2.7 billion for investments in water...
The aqueduct capacity in certain areas of the Southern San Joaquin Valley is nearly reduced by half due to subsidence....
At the October meeting of Metropolitan’s One Water and Stewardship Committee meeting, staff began the first of a series of...
The San Francisco Estuary watershed is characterized by periods of both wet and dry. But the dry seems to be occurring more frequently and intensely than in the past. Researcher Rosemary Hartman led a collaborative team that looked at nearly...
By Robin Meadows In the late 1990s, hardly anyone had heard of the storms called atmospheric rivers. That includes Marty...
Current water policies in the Delta encourage “shifting baselines” that gradually degrade ecosystems. But ongoing work on the Klamath River...
by Robin Meadows In 1990, Gary Estes moved to Auburn, a town of nearly 14,000 in the Sierra Nevada foothills on the North Fork of the American River. Estes, an environmentalist, immediately joined the fight against Auburn Dam. The proposed...
Dr. Sedlak discusses various water challenges and solutions, including water for the wealthy and water for food, with a focus...
In July 2024, the Bureau of Reclamation released a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the long-term operation of the...
By Robin Meadows The first time Malissa Tayaba visited one of her ancestral village sites on the banks of the Sacramento River, she was in tears. “We are river people, we are salmon people. The river fed us, clothed us,...
In parts of the Central Valley, nitrate levels in groundwater have risen so high that the drinking water in rural...
A new kind of Delta diversion could extract water at a slow enough rate, and across a wide enough area,...
Informational resources include new Story Map on the incorporation of climate change conditions into the new operations plan and the efforts to protect winter-run Chinook salmon. The Bureau of Reclamation has prepared an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the long-term...