By Robin Meadows As a New York Times columnist once quipped, “California’s water system might have been invented by a...
California’s forests are facing a growing threat: wildfires. The severity and frequency of these fires are on the rise, fueled...
At the June meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Watermaster Jay Ziegler updated the Council on the implementation of the Delta Alternative Compliance Plan for compliance with SB 88 and the Delta Dry Year Response Plan. Delta Alternative Compliance...
In March 2023, six basins were deemed by the Department of Water Resources to have inadequate groundwater sustainability plans, prompting...
When Steve Neader’s rice farm flooded last winter after three years of drought, a UC Davis research team checked to...
The recent succession of atmospheric rivers has spurred support for groundwater recharge, creating a wave of momentum for moving recharge projects forward. Earlier this year, Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order to enable local water agencies that are water...
Written by Robin Meadows It sounds like such a simple fix for California’s groundwater woes. In phenomenally wet years like...
The Department of Water Resources is working on a final EIR to install the barrier two times over ten years...
Written by Robin Meadows Sturgeon have been around far longer than humans—a jaw-dropping 200 million years to our comparatively short 6 million—and survived the cataclysm that terminated the age of dinosaurs. But can these ancient fish survive the age of...
By Robin Meadows The State Water Resources Control Board, which both allocates surface water rights and protects water quality for...
Metropolitan’s One Water and Stewardship Committee meeting on May 8 featured a presentation on the Bureau of Reclamation’s draft Supplemental...
The California Water Plan is the state’s strategic roadmap for managing the state’s precious water resources equitably and sustainably. First developed in 1957, it has been continually updated to tackle the evolving issues and challenges of the day. The latest...
by Robin Meadows Two decades ago, scientists were alarmed by sudden declines in at-risk fish and their tiny prey, called...
Written by Robin Meadows As evidence for the wide-ranging environmental benefits of beavers has mounted, champions of these 40-to-70-pound rodents...
In March 2023, the Department of Water Resources issued final determinations on groundwater sustainability plans (GSPs) submitted by the groundwater basins in January of 2022 that were ultimately determined to be incomplete. After the groundwater sustainability agencies (GSAs) were given...