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...
Researchers are just beginning to unveil the hazardous mix of chemicals, microplastics, and heavy metals concealed within car and truck...
by Jacoba Charles In a time when both science and women’s rights are being actively challenged, the Sierra Nevada Phillips...
A decade after the introduction of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), significant strides have been made in managing California’s groundwater resources. However, the path to effective implementation has been fraught with challenges. At ACWA’s 2024 Spring Conference, a panel...
by Robin Meadows California’s freshwater ecosystems―from springs and wetlands to rivers and estuaries―are in trouble and the warming world is...
At the June meeting of Metropolitan Water District’s One Water and Stewardship Committee meeting, DWR Director Karla Nemeth was on...
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: It’s complicated. Consider: The Bay Delta watershed spans 75,000 square miles, stretching over 500 miles from the Cascade Range to the Tehachapi Mountains. Nearly half of California’s surface water originates as rain or snow in this...