By Robin Meadows In 2015, when California was deep into a severe drought, state Senate Bill 88 tightened requirements for...
At the July meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Associate Deputy Executive Officer Harriet Lai Ross updated the Council members on the Delta Adapts project. Delta Adapts is a two-phase initiative. The first phase was the vulnerability assessment, completed two...
The Delta Stewardship Council met in July at Peter’s Steakhouse in Isleton. On the agenda was an update on the...
by Robin Meadows This year is a classic example of the way California’s water system was designed to work. Winter...
Groundwater is a critical resource, supplying nearly 40% of the state with water to support cities and farms. With droughts increasing in severity and frequency and climate change putting stress on local communities across the state, it has become increasingly...
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...