With the acknowledgement that the state’s water situation needs a comprehensive solution, one that extends beyond the reach of the...
Senator Dianne Feinstein and Congressman Jim Costa have teamed up to write a letter to Secretary of the Interior Sally...
The Delta Stewardship Council held a two-day meeting in November 21-22, 2013. On the agenda for this meeting was the upcoming review of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) documents, a follow-up on the habitat restoration report released earlier this...
At the National Water Research Institute’s Drought Response Workshop held in October of this year, Department of Water Resources climatologist...
So what does the environmental community think of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan? In order to understand the details of...
What do those that live and farm in the Delta think of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan? Is there a solution for the Delta that the in-Delta interests would support? Russell van Loben Sels, a fourth generation farmer, gives the...
As a large water supplier dependent on Delta water for a large portion of its water supplies, the Santa Clara...
At their request, the Redding City Council heard a presentation by Dr. Jerry Meral, Deputy Director of the California Natural...
Southern California state legislators have sent a letter to Governor Brown and Secretary Jewell, expressing their support for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan and urging them to stay the course with the upcoming release of the documents and subsequent 120-day...
Groundwater withdrawals in the Central Valley have caused a 1200-square mile subsidence bowl that is affecting water conveyance and flood...
The Fall Midwater Trawl surveys, conducted in September and October, did not have positive results for the fish. It was...
Phil Isenberg, Chair of the Delta Stewardship Council, issued the following statement regarding the release of the USGS’s latest report showing extensive groundwater pumping from San Joaquin Valley aquifers is increasing the rate of land subsidence, or sinking, potentially causing...
At the State of the Estuary conference held at the end of October, Ellen Hanak gave a presentation that summarized...
The San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors has written a letter to Secretary John Laird highlighting several issues that were...
The Friends of the River have sent a letter to NOAA fisheries, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation, US EPA, and the California Natural Resources Agency thanking them for the recent meeting, which confirmed their previous assertions: ”...