WEEKLY WATER NEWS DIGEST for Aug. 16-21: State Water Board releases final draft Bay Delta Plan; Are Kings County farmers getting a bad rap from bad data?; Low-water winter forage faces high-cost SGMA reality; How one Davis lab is trying to stop California’s golden mussel invasion; and more … Maven Weekly Digest August 21, 2026A wrap-up of posts published on Maven’s Notebook this week … Note to readers: Sign up for weekly email service...
WEEKLY WATER NEWS DIGEST for Aug. 9-14: ‘Super’ El Niño is now super likely; Reclamation nudges CVP allocations up for south-of-Delta contractors; Report: SGMA risks crushing state’s small farmers; Once-abundant wetlands are drying up after federal staff cutbacks; and more … Maven Weekly Digest August 14, 2026A wrap-up of posts published on Maven’s Notebook this week … Note to readers: Sign up for weekly email service...
WEEKLY WATER NEWS DIGEST for Aug 2-7: ‘Snow-eater’ heat waves adding to Western water woes; Modeling the future of groundwater recharge; Recent court case limits and shapes judicial review under SGMA; Lake Mead hits lowest water level on record; and more … Maven Weekly Digest August 7, 2026A wrap-up of posts published on Maven’s Notebook this week … Note to readers: Sign up for weekly email service...
WEEKLY WATER NEWS DIGEST for July 27-31: Reclamation publishes final EIS for Colorado River operations; SGMA could leave small farmers in the dust; Kern water districts officially pledge just 1/3 of state ask for Delta tunnel costs; How Trump’s ESA rollback is roiling NorCal: and more … Maven Weekly Digest July 31, 2026A wrap-up of posts published on Maven’s Notebook this week … Note to readers: Sign up for weekly email service...
WEEKLY WATER NEWS DIGEST for July 19-24: California dodges a bullet on Colorado River cuts; Could water rights scuttle Sites?; Will the “super” El Niño fill Tulare Lake?; Can cities make deals to lessen data center downsides? A Caltech professor says yes; and more … Maven Weekly Digest July 24, 2026A wrap-up of posts published on Maven’s Notebook this week … Note to readers: Sign up for weekly email service...
WEEKLY WATER NEWS DIGEST for July 12-17: State poised to nix pumping along Friant-Kern Canal by early 2027; Dr. Swain: California could collide with a “very significant El Niño event”; Water managers may have a new way to fight golden mussels; CA agencies advance strategy for emerging contaminants and tire-derived 6PPD-quinone; and more … Maven Weekly Digest July 17, 2026A wrap-up of posts published on Maven’s Notebook this week … Note to readers: Sign up for weekly email service...
WEEKLY WATER NEWS DIGEST for 7/6-10: What a strong El Niño means for CA; Kern water districts slash support for Delta tunnel; Reclamation’s Shasta plan poses salmon peril; Golden mussels plague farms and water districts; and more … Maven Weekly Digest July 10, 2026A wrap-up of posts published on Maven’s Notebook this week … Note to readers: Sign up for weekly email service...
WEEKLY WATER NEWS DIGEST for June 28-July 2: The uneven toll of SGMA; Progress on CA’s salmon strategy; Why removing aging infrastructure can be the smart choice; Governor appoints Thomas Gibson as DWR Director; and more … Maven Weekly Digest July 2, 2026A wrap-up of posts published on Maven’s Notebook this week … Note to readers: Sign up for weekly email service...
WEEKLY WATER NEWS DIGEST for June 21-26: State proposes new “good guy’ application fee of up to $250,000 for groundwater oversight costs; SGMA-ready crops as a low-water alternative to fallowing; Is Lake Elsinore water district ‘a legitimate buyer’ for Eel River dams?; AI predicts natural river flows in California. Could it do more?; and more … Maven Weekly Digest June 26, 2026A wrap-up of posts published on Maven’s Notebook this week … Note to readers: Sign up for weekly email service...
WEEKLY WATER NEWS DIGEST for June 14-19: Is climate change supercharging El Niño?; California’s shifting snowpack and the growing water gap; Water Commission increases potential funding for Sites Project; A solution to data center backlash? Put them in oil fields; and more … Maven Weekly Digest June 19, 2026A wrap-up of posts published on Maven’s Notebook this week … Note to readers: Sign up for weekly email service...
WEEKLY WATER NEWS DIGEST for June 7-12: El Niño is here — and likely to be historic; Shrinking state funds could slow fixes for Californians with toxic water; Iran-backed hackers claim breach of California water systems; Can Delta smelt make a comeback?; and more … Maven Weekly Digest June 12, 2026A wrap-up of posts published on Maven’s Notebook this week … Note to readers: Sign up for weekly email service...
WEEKLY WATER NEWS DIGEST for 5/31-6/5: Trump official shares vision of desal plants lining California coast; DWR confronts subsidence on the California Aqueduct; Desal startup hopes to rewrite California’s water future; Defining reasonable use, one regulation at a time; and more … Maven Weekly Digest June 5, 2026A wrap-up of posts published on Maven’s Notebook this week … Note to readers: Sign up for weekly email service...
WEEKLY WATER NEWS DIGEST for May 26-29: Sites Project Authority urges revisions to draft water rights permit; A new bill could bypass water rights review to advance the Delta tunnel; A water renaissance plan for California; Groundwater recovery stalls; and more … Maven Weekly Digest May 29, 2026A wrap-up of posts published on Maven’s Notebook this week … Note to readers: Sign up for weekly email service...
WEEKLY WATER NEWS DIGEST for May 17-22: Can collective efforts address subsidence in the SJV?; Salmon at risk with fed’s Shasta management plan; Coalition releases “Water Renaissance” vision for the state’s water future; Tribal water rights in California; and more … Maven Weekly Digest May 22, 2026A wrap-up of posts published on Maven’s Notebook this week … Note to readers: Sign up for weekly email service...
WEEKLY WATER NEWS DIGEST for 5/10-5/15: Will coming El Niño bring epic rain this winter?; Hi-tech missions track record snowpack loss in the West; SGMA’s subsidence guidance: A higher bar, real-world impacts; The case for investing in the Delta; and more … Maven Weekly Digest May 15, 2026A wrap-up of posts published on Maven’s Notebook this week … Note to readers: Sign up for weekly email service...
