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NOTICE of Water Quality Certification Application for Battle Creek Salmon and Steelhead Restoration Project: Phase 2 No Regrets

January 11, 2024

Pursuant to California Code of Regulations, title 23, section 3858, the State Water Resources Control Board posted Public Notice for...

DAILY DIGEST, 1/11: Solano County ready to sue state over Delta tunnel EIR; Zone 7 mulls Sites Reservoir share; Climate change is shrinking snowpack in many places; Arizona’s plan to fix the Colorado River; and more …

Maven

Daily Digest

January 11, 2024

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] In California water news today … Solano County ready to sue state over Delta tunnel EIR “Solano County will...

CA BUDGET: Governor releases budget proposal. Here’s the detail on water and climate spending

Maven

Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

January 10, 2024

January budget proposal closes a $37.86 billion shortfall while protecting key investments in education, public safety, addressing homelessness, mental health...

DAILY DIGEST, 1/10: Biggest winter storm so far is on its way; Healthy reservoir levels offset scant snowpack depths; State Water Board acknowledges “paper water”; Understanding water supply forecast error on the Colorado River; and more …

Maven

Daily Digest

January 10, 2024

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … GRA SF Bay: 2024 Darcy Lecture: Fiber Optic Distributed Sensing as a Window on...

NIDIS: Understanding Water Supply Forecast Error on the Colorado River

NIDIS

Colorado River

January 10, 2024

By Peter Goble, Russ Schumacher, Colorado Climate Center The Colorado River is perhaps the most critical resource to the southwestern...

AG ALERT: Healthy reservoir levels offset scant snowpack depths

Ag Alert

Current Conditions

January 10, 2024

By Christine Souza, Ag Alert Unlike early 2023, when nonstop atmospheric river storms built a deep Sierra Nevada snowpack, replenished...

C-WIN: Coming Clean: State Water Resources Control Board Finally Acknowledges “Paper Water”

CA Water Impact Network (C-WIN)

Water rights and water law

January 10, 2024

Figures in the Agency’s New Bay-Delta Plan Update Confirm What Water Reform Advocates Have Long Maintained: California Water Rights Claims...

GRIST: Bottled water has up to 100 times more plastic particles than previously thought

Grist

Water quality

January 10, 2024

By Joseph Winters, Grist This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. At this...

DAILY DIGEST, 1/9: Project aims to develop new tools to allocate limited water supplies; Court rejects challenges to DWR’s SWP contract extension EIR; Thousands of nanoplastic bits found in bottled water; Cleanup nightmare: Styrofoam spill at Tahoe; and more …

Maven

Daily Digest

January 9, 2024

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … LEG HEARING: Assembly Committee on Water, Parks, and Wildlife beginning at 9am. Click here...

Q & A: Today’s data and past history could add up to a more equitable way to divvy up California’s water

Janet Byron

Best of the Notebook Notebook News and Features Water rights and water law

January 9, 2024

Project aims to develop new tools to allocate limited water supplies By Janet Byron Joan Didion wrote in the 1970s...

DAILY DIGEST, 1/8: Seawall lawsuit could reshape CA coast; Some farmers pay for groundwater. Is that workable?; A Functional Flows approach to implementing Flood-MAR; and more …

Maven

Daily Digest

January 8, 2024

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] In California water news today … State officials wouldn’t let these homeowners build a sea wall. Their lawsuit could...

DAILY DIGEST, weekend edition: With snowpack below average, approaching storms bring hope; Delta tunnel project raises questions over Napa water supply; Colorado River states are racing to agree on cuts before inauguration day; and more …

Maven

Daily Digest

January 7, 2024

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] In California water news this weekend … With California snowpack below average, approaching storms bring hope “On Saturday, stormy,...