Fran Spivy-Weber talks about the statewide sustainability initiatives included in the California Water Action Plan, and ends with the suggestion...
Officials from the water projects, fish agencies, and the State Water Board review how they responded last year, and outline...
The Delta Stewardship Council votes to unanimously accept the Delta Levee Investment Issue Paper, setting the framework for upcoming policy discussions The Delta Levee Investment Strategy project is an 18-month multi-agency effort led by the Delta Stewardship Council to update...
Panel discusses how the water transfer market fared the drought in 2014, and with another dry year possible, they contemplate...
DWR’s Kamyar Guivetchi presents the California Water Plan, touching on the importance of integrated water management; the nexus between the...
The annual survey conducted each fall since 1967 shows record low number for Delta smelt; longfin smelt is second lowest The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has completed the Fall Midwater Trawl Survey, a survey conducted each fall to...
Earlier today, Governor Brown proposed his balanced budget that increases funding for schools and health care coverage, holds college tuition...
Janelle Beland and Kris Tjernell from the California Natural Resources Agency brief the Delta Plan Interagency Implementation Committee on the...
On January 1st, the new Sustainable Groundwater Management Act took effect. The statewide regulation of groundwater is one of the most important and controversial challenges facing the water managers and water users. At the fall conference of the Association of...
The 21st Century delivers unprecedented challenges to water, key to life, economy and the environment. Unless we examine our relationship with...
At the 2014 fall conference of the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA), the keynote speaker at Wednesday’s luncheon was...
For one week each October, Chicago Ideas Week brings together some of the world’s most outstanding speakers to present their ideas and inspire the innovations of tomorrow at 80+ sessions across the city of Chicago. In October of 2013, the...
Just last week, the State Water Resources Control Board appointed Michael George to be the new Delta Watermaster. He’ll be...
Groundwater adjudications, notoriously expensive and time consuming, emerged as an issue during the development and ultimate passage of the Sustainable...
The Antelope Valley groundwater adjudication case is the current poster child for how painfully long and expensive groundwater adjudications can be. The enormous case involves a multitude of public agencies, farmers, cities, the federal government, and landowners, both large and...