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,...
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...
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...
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...
At the May meeting of the California Water Commission, the Commission was updated on the implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act or SGMA, including state activities related to the Commission’s May 2022 White Paper on groundwater trading, an update...