PLANNING & CONSERVATION LEAGUE: Updating California Water Laws in the Face of Droughts and Climate Change #2 Maven Best of the NotebookNotebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulationWater rights and water law March 23, 2023Water rights have garnered increasing attention as water managers and decision-makers grapple with how best to respond to changing conditions. ...
SJV WATER: Boswell-Poso Creek “stand off” continues as flood waters build SJV Water Current Conditions March 22, 2023By Lois Henry, SJV Water The stand off over draining Poso Creek flood waters into a canal owned by the...
DAN WALTERS: California’s ghostly Tulare Lake will be revived this year Cal Matters Commentary March 22, 2023California was once home to the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River, but Tulare Lake disappeared as water...
HEATHER COOLEY: Solutions for Building Water Resilience in California Maven Notebook News and FeaturesWater supply augmentation March 22, 2023With the ever-changing climate and increasingly dry summers, California faces water challenges, despite this year’s bountiful snowpack. At the February...
SJV WATER: Threats of arrest force hard decisions on Poso Creek, which could swamp two towns SJV Water Current Conditions March 21, 2023By Lois Henry, SJV Water Jack Mitchell’s phone is ringing off the hook these days, but he almost always picks...
USBR NEWS: Keeping Folsom Reservoir’s cold water in the bank until it’s needed Bureau of Reclamation News Water project operations March 20, 2023By Gary Pitzer, US Bureau of Reclamation California’s winter storms have blasted the Sierra Nevada with a thick blanket of...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: Tribe’s fight for water in drought-plagued West divides Supreme Court Courthouse News Service Colorado River March 20, 2023Over 150 years ago the federal government agreed to provide the Navajo Nation with land to live on, but the...
SJV WATER: Ugly deeds, politics and high drama swirl amid the waters of a re-emerging Tulare Lake SJV Water Current Conditions March 19, 2023By Lois Henry, SJV Water The drama was high on the Tulare Lake bed Saturday as flood waters pushed some...
SJV WATER: Hoping to “take the pressure off” flooded areas, a levee is cut in the old Tulare Lake SJV Water Current Conditions March 19, 2023By Lois Henry, SJV Water After days of debate and delay the Kings County Board of Supervisors ordered a levee...
FRESNOLAND: Big rivers kept in check as residents grappled with havoc from streams, springs and snowmelt in Madera and Fresno counties Fresnoland Current Conditions March 18, 2023By Gregory Weaver, Fresnoland In Fresno and Madera counties, it was smaller streams and snowmelt that caused most of the...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: Low Lake Mead water level tough on small town Courthouse News Service Colorado River March 17, 2023Twenty-three years of drought have dried up tourist dollars for Overton, Nevada. But some residents think the federal government bears...
CAL MATTERS COMMENTARY: Newsom’s Delta decisions are the sort of responsive moves California needs for water crisis Cal Matters CommentaryWater project operations March 17, 2023The decision to suspend environmental regulations for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta – and then reverse it a few weeks later...
CAL MATTERS COMMENTARY: Waiving California environmental rules for Delta water equates to a civil rights issue Cal Matters CommentaryWater project operations March 17, 2023Despite reversing course last week, the February decision by Gov. Gavin Newsom and state water officials to bypass environmental rules...
THE CONVERSATION: Is the Western drought finally ending? That depends on where you look The Conversation Current Conditions March 16, 2023By Dan McEvoy, Desert Research Institute After three years of extreme drought, the Western U.S. is finally getting a break....
CDFW Testing ‘Parentage-Based Tagging’ of Fall-Run Chinook Salmon Department of Fish and Wildlife Delta scienceFish and wildlife March 16, 2023By the Department of Fish & Wildlife: Under cover of darkness and with a series of cold, late-winter storms building,...
