On September 19, the Department of Water Resources held a Delta regional forum as part of the update to the...
An independent review of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan has just been released by American Rivers and The Nature Conservancy. ...
Science in the Delta is entering a new era. The requirements of the Delta Reform Act, the recommendations of the National Research Council, and recent court rulings have propelled California forward on a new path of collaborative approaches to management...
What was the most costy disaster in the U.S. in recent years? The Mississippi River floods in 2011? The outbreak...
California lacks a statewide sustainable groundwater management program, instead leaving groundwater under local control, and while there are a few...
Negotiations continue between the Department of Water Resources and the water suppliers who contract for water from the State Water Project. Some of the issues on the table include extending the length of the contracts from between 40 and 75...
At the August 27th, 2013 of Metropolitan’s Special Committee on the Bay Delta, the Committee heard a presentation on the...
Congressmembers Doris Matsui, George Miller, John Garamendi, Jerry McNerney and others have written a letter to Governor Brown expressing their...
California has long relied on surface reservoirs to manage the state’s fluctuating water supply as evidenced by the over 1300 reservoirs both large and small that dot the landscape – from Redding in the north to San Diego in the...
At the August 22nd meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Lead Scientist Dr. Peter Goodwin gave a preview of the...
On March 20, 2013, the Assembly Select Committee on Regional Approaches to Addressing the State’s Water Crisis held an informational...
In July, Aguanomic’s blogger David Zetland moderated a panel discussion hosted by Restore the Delta after a viewing of their movie, “Over Troubled Waters.” Seated on the panel were Adam Scow from Food and Water Watch, Dr. Jeff Michael with...
At the August 22nd Delta Stewardship Council Meeting, Cindy Messer, Deputy Executive Officer, and Keith Coolidge, Executive Manager of External Affairs, updated...
Legislation passed in 2009 set an ambitious target for statewide water conservation: a 20% reduction in urban per capita water...
At the Delta Stewardship Council’s meeting on August 22, Karla Nemeth, project manager, and Gordon Enas, engineer, were there to brief council members on the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). The presentation included an overview of the project and how...