The October meeting of the California Water Commission included an update on the seven projects progressing through the Water Storage...
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 presentations on the Delta Conveyance Project to prepare for the upcoming vote in December, when the Metropolitan Board will be...
The San Francisco Estuary watershed is characterized by periods of both wet and dry. But the dry seems to be...
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 shows that restoring ecosystems to a better state than the status quo is possible. By Alastair Bland Among the jumbled...
by Robin Meadows In 1990, Gary Estes moved to Auburn, a town of nearly 14,000 in the Sierra Nevada foothills...
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 Central Valley Project (CVP) and the State Water Project (SWP) for public comment. The draft document considers revised operations of...
By Robin Meadows The first time Malissa Tayaba visited one of her ancestral village sites on the banks of the...
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, that proponents say fish would hardly notice it. by Alastair Bland In California’s arid San Joaquin Valley, communities have long...
Informational resources include new Story Map on the incorporation of climate change conditions into the new operations plan and the...
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 award shines a light on accomplished women in water resource sciences. Launched with a ceremony last March—Women’s History Month—the new...