COMMENTARY: Time to Start Building for California’s Sustainable Future

Press Release/Notice

Delta Conveyance Project

August 16, 2025

By Tim Carmichael, President of California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance and Joe Cruz, Executive Director, California State Council...

PRESS RELEASE: OceanWell and Las Virgenes Municipal Water District launch California Water Farm 1 with capacity of 60 million gallons per day as six agencies join project

Press Release/Notice

Water supply augmentation

August 16, 2025

Press release from Ocean Well and Las Virgenes Municipal Water District OceanWell, a water technology company, announced plans to advance...

REVISED NOTICE of Public Comment and Hearing on July 2025 Revised Draft Updates to Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan

State Water Board

ANNOUNCEMENTS

August 16, 2025

This notice is to advise interested parties that the State Water Resources Control Board has posted a revised notice of...

COLORADO RIVER: Reclamation announces 2026 operating conditions for Lake Powell and Lake Mead

Bureau of Reclamation News

Colorado River

August 15, 2025

Latest projections stress the need for robust operational agreements for the Colorado River after 2026 The Bureau of Reclamation released the August...

WEEKLY WATER NEWS DIGEST for Aug. 10-15: La Niña is brewing; First atmospheric river of the season hits the West Coast; State’s proposed fee change for pumpers falls flat; Restoring forests or risking flames? Scientists debate active management; and more …

Maven

Weekly Digest

August 15, 2025

A wrap-up of posts published on Maven’s Notebook this week … Note to readers: Sign up for weekly email service...

DAILY DIGEST, 8/15: La Niña is brewing. Here’s what it means for California; $1B is just the start, says Water Blueprint; Helping California track and protect its wetlands; Restoring forests or risking flames? Scientists debate active management; and more …

Maven

Daily Digest

August 15, 2025

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DAN WALTERS: California Legislature’s final weeks could decide fate of Delta water tunnel

Cal Matters

Delta Conveyance Project

August 15, 2025

By Dan Walters, Cal Matters This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Tanned, rested and...

THE CONVERSATION: Grand Canyon’s Dragon Bravo megafire shows the growing wildfire threat to water systems

The Conversation

Wildfires and watersheds

August 15, 2025

By Faith Kearns, Arizona State University As wildfire crews battled the Dragon Bravo Fire on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim...

MONGABAY: Restoring forests or risking flames? Scientists debate active management

Mongabay

Wildfires and watersheds

August 15, 2025

By John Cannon, Mongabay On Sept. 8, 2020, a brush field in southern Oregon, in the northwestern U.S., caught fire....

NEVADA TODAY: Research indicates more severe wildfires will result in more water quality challenges

University of Nevada-Reno

Wildfires and watersheds

August 15, 2025

University of Nevada, Reno researchers use the popular Lamoille Canyon recreation area to dig deeper into wildfires’ possible effects on...

YALE CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Why winter rains keep skipping the Southwest

Yale Climate Connections

Colorado RiverHydrology

August 15, 2025

by Bob Henson, Yale Climate Connections  Climate change appears to have driven an ongoing 25-year shortfall in winter rains and...

INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: Temperatures and Carbon Emissions Continue to Rise

Inside Climate News

Climate change

August 15, 2025

An acceleration of warming that started in 2023 continued through 2024, according to the latest annual climate assessment by the...

DAILY DIGEST, 8/14: Atmospheric river approaching West Coast; Solano water officials say Bay Delta Plan still needs work; California’s newest invaders are beautiful swans; Proposed cemetery raises groundwater concerns in Riverside County; and more …

Maven

Daily Digest

August 14, 2025

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THE CONVERSATION: Climate models reveal how human activity may be locking the Southwest into permanent drought

The Conversation

Colorado RiverHydrology

August 14, 2025

By Pedro DiNezio, University of Colorado Boulder and Timothy Shanahan, The University of Texas at Austin A new wave of...

CAL MATTERS: California’s newest invaders are beautiful swans. Should hunters kill them?

Cal Matters

Ecosystems

August 14, 2025

California has tried to eradicate ugly South American swamp rodents called nutria. Shooting destructive nonnative mute swans might be a...