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August 1, 2022

California Urban Streams Partnership shows Contra Costa County homeowners how to be stewards of their watersheds. By Jessica Hall, Earth...

DAN WALTERS: Can Newsom finally win long Delta water conflict?

Cal Matters

Commentary Delta Conveyance Project

August 1, 2022

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is trying to succeed where his predecessors have failed, building a project to replumb the Sacramento-San...

THIS JUST IN … Public Comment Period Opens for Additional Resubmitted Groundwater Sustainability Plans with ‘Incomplete’ Determinations

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Groundwater News

August 1, 2022

From the Department of Water Resources: On January 28, 2022, the Department released eight Incomplete determinations on groundwater sustainability plans...

MONTHLY RESERVOIR REPORT for August 1

Robert Shibatani

Current Conditions

August 1, 2022

Written by hydrologist Robert Shibatani With two months left in this water year (WY), California’s federal and State water systems...

SJV WATER: Utility stops flows to closed hatchery but keeps some North Fork Kern water for itself

SJV Water

Policy and regulation

July 29, 2022

By Lois Henry, SJV Water Southern California Edison has stopped taking water out of the North Fork of the Kern...

COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE: California cements plan to tunnel out of water crisis

Courthouse News Service

Delta Conveyance Project

July 27, 2022

By Kevin Winter, Courthouse News Service Try, try and try again is the motto for the state of California for...

SJV WATER: Costs vs. benefits still unknown for the latest delta tunnel alignment, released Wednesday

SJV Water

Delta Conveyance Project

July 27, 2022

By Lois Henry, SJV Water Kern County water managers are, for the most part, sticking with the proposed Sacramento-San Joaquin...

WATER STORAGE INVESTMENT PROGRAM: The Road to Final Funding

Maven

Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

July 27, 2022

The first of seven projects could see final funding awarded by the end of the year; other projects not until...

PRESS RELEASE: Delta Counties Say Delta Tunnel Project Remains Deficient and Deeply Flawed

Delta Counties Coalition

Delta Conveyance Project

July 27, 2022

From the Delta Counties Coalition: In response to the release today of a Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) by the...

USBR: Smile, You’re On Candid Camera!

Bureau of Reclamation News

Fish and wildlife

July 26, 2022

Innovative Technology Offers Non-Invasive, Efficient Way to Monitor Fish Populations and Their Habitat From the Bureau of Reclamation: In an...

DELTA COUNTIES FORUM: Delta tunnel opponents express their concerns, push for alternatives

Maven

Delta Conveyance Project Notebook News and Features

July 26, 2022

The Delta Counties Coalition (DCC) is an alliance of the California Counties of Contra Costa, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Solano, and...

SJV WATER: South valley groundwater managers to use $10 million to protect community water and look for ways to retire up to 100,000 acres of farmland

SJV Water

Groundwater News

July 25, 2022

By Jesse Vad, SJV Water Three San Joaquin Valley water agencies are gearing up to spend $10 million each in...

CAL MATTERS: Delta tunnel: Salmon at risk from massive water project, state report says

Cal Matters

Delta Conveyance Project

July 22, 2022

By Rachel Becker, Cal Matters California’s water agency today released a long-awaited environmental report outlining the details and impacts of...

THIS JUST IN … Public Comment Period Opens for Re-Submitted Groundwater Sustainability Plans with ‘Incomplete’ Determinations

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Groundwater News

July 21, 2022

From the Department of Water Resources: On January 21, 2022, the Department released four Incomplete determinations on groundwater sustainability plans...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Proportionate limits may float Colorado River users through water crisis

Courthouse News Service

Colorado River

July 21, 2022

Between the double-decade Millennium Drought and century-old deals overdrafting Colorado River water, the west’s water reserves are drawing dangerously low....