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: ”...
At the State of the Estuary conference held at the end of October, economist Jeff Michael and Deputy Secretary of...
The Friends of the San Francisco Estuary have written two letters to state officials regarding the Bay Delta Conservation Plan....
On October 29th,2013, the House Subcommittee on Water and Power held on oversight hearing, A Road Map for Increasing Our Water and Hydropower Supplies: The Need for New or Expanded Multi-purpose Facilities. The hearing, led by Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock,...
Written by yours truly, posted at Zocalo Public Square: “In California, we owe the existence of our communities to the...
At the National Water Research Institute’s Drought Response Workshop, October 8, 2013, John Leahigh, Principal Engineer for State Water Project Operations...
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The 11th Biennial State of the Estuary conference held in October, 2013, brought together the leaders from the state’s resource agencies to discuss the multiple planning processes going on and share their views on how these processes will work together....
This is the third in a series of profiles written especially for Maven’s Notebook by Emily DeMarco. The first in...
At the October meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, staff updated the Council on the covered actions regulatory process and...
With the grim reaper of legislation sure to be visiting the $11.14 billion water bond early in 2014 to officially banish the bond to the junk pile of failed legislation, both the Assembly and Senate are hard at work crafting...