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DAILY DIGEST, 7/1: Judge backs Reclamation in fight over CVP water contract conversions; SGMA implementation shifts from planning to reality; CA lawmakers approve last-minute, sweeping rollbacks to CEQA; Western states step up to save their wetlands; and more …

July 1, 2025

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COURTHOUSE NEWS: Judge backs Reclamation in fight over California water contract conversions

Courthouse News Service

Water project operations

July 1, 2025

A federal judge agreed that a 2016 law requires the Bureau of Reclamation to convert short-term contracts into permanent ones...

DELTA PROTECTION COMMISSION: Rice: The other climate- and wildlife-friendly solution for the Delta

Delta Protection Commission

Agriculture

July 1, 2025

By Holly Heyser Delta Protection Commission Rice acreage is growing rapidly in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta’s agricultural core. It nearly...

SJV WATER: Boaters hold “portage protest” over low flows on upper Kern River

SJV Water

Water rights and water law

July 1, 2025

By Lois Henry, SJV Water Six rafting enthusiasts held a grueling protest Sunday to draw awareness to what they say...

Environmental groups sue SeaWorld San Diego over fireworks

The Center Square

Water quality

July 1, 2025

By Jamie Parsons, Center Square Two environmental groups are suing SeaWorld San Diego for allegedly failing to follow its Clean...

BERKELEY LAB: New membrane technology could expand access to water for agricultural and industrial use

Berkeley Lab

Water supply augmentation

July 1, 2025

Berkeley Lab-led Water Hub supports company in advancing desalination methods By Christina Procopiou, Berkeley Lab Key Takeaways Approximately 40 percent...

GRIST: What does climate change mean for agriculture? Less food, and more emissions

Grist

Agriculture Climate change

July 1, 2025

New research sheds light on how rising temperatures are squeezing farmers and raising prices for consumers. By Frida Garza, Grist...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Arizona approves ‘Ag-to-Urban’ water conservation plan

Courthouse News Service

Colorado River

June 30, 2025

The bill will allow farmers to exchange land and water rights with urban developers to decrease water use and increase...

DAILY DIGEST, 6/30: Lake Powell, Lake Mead, and Southern California’s water dilemma; Feds must decide on protections for Chinook salmon; Keeping microplastics out of the San Francisco Bay; Aquatic weed containment in the Tahoe Keys is the season’s focus; and more …

Maven

Daily Digest

June 30, 2025

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COLORADO RIVER: Lake Powell, Lake Mead, and Southern California’s water dilemma

Maven

Colorado River Notebook News and Features

June 30, 2025

Two years ago, the Colorado River Lower Basin states united to conserve an extra 3 million acre-feet of water by...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Feds must decide on protections for Chinook salmon

Courthouse News Service

Fish and wildlife

June 30, 2025

Under the terms of a settlement agreement, there could soon be new federal protections for the Chinook, the largest of...

NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Keeping microplastics out of the San Francisco Bay: A conversation with environmental toxicologist Ezra Miller

Robin Meadows

Water quality

June 30, 2025

by Robin Meadows In 2019, the San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) published a three-year study of microplastics in the San...

SFEWS: Traditional knowledge and current science inform conservation and preservation practices in the Delta

Guest Contributor

Delta science

June 30, 2025

This edition of SFEWS (Volume 23, Issue 2) includes research on integrating traditional knowledge with science in the Delta, a...

NASA: By air and by sea: Validating NASA’s PACE ocean color instrument

NASA/JPL

Ecosystems

June 30, 2025

By Milan Loiacono, NASA In autumn 2024, California’s Monterey Bay experienced an outsized phytoplankton bloom that attracted fish, dolphins, whales, seabirds,...

DAILY DIGEST, weekend edition: Kaweah second groundwater basin to escape state enforcement; Delta Adaptation Plan underscores urgency of climate-resilient water infrastructure; Spring-run salmon improves due to revitalized migration patterns; Critical reservoirs Lakes Mead, Powell hit ‘alarmingly low levels’ again; and more …

Maven

Daily Digest

June 29, 2025

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