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DAILY DIGEST, 6/3: Toxic algal blooms are getting worse in the Delta; Butte County Supe criticizes DWR’s response on Oroville Dam; San Joaquin Valley water resilience summit – from reports to results; Biden’s clean drinking water plan is being rebranded as MAHA; and more …

June 3, 2026

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INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: Colorado River faces ‘devastating consequences’ if another dry winter lands, experts warn

Inside Climate News

Colorado River

June 3, 2026

Even a huge snowpack during the coming winter would only give the river basin states less than two years of...

DAILY DIGEST, 6/2: Trump administration doubles down on effort to stop Eel River dam removal; How a deep-ocean desalination startup hopes to rewrite California’s water future; DWR’s vision for the valley points to less irrigated farmland; Snow drought and low flows in the Colorado; and more …

Maven

Daily Digest

June 2, 2026

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GRIST: Why is this Trump official dead set on saving a failing California dam?

Grist

Planning and management

June 2, 2026

Brooke Rollins’s latest culture war crusade threatens a delicate compromise between Potter Valley farmers and nearby tribes. By Jake Bittle...

UC BOULDER: Colorado River Basin storage continues slide toward system crash

University of Colorado at Boulder

Colorado River

June 2, 2026

By Anne Castle, Jack Schmidt, Eric Kuhn, Kathryn Sorensen, Katherine Tara Stored water reserves in the Colorado River system continue to decline. The mismatch...

DAILY DIGEST, 6/1: Sinking land, shrinking capacity: DWR confronts subsidence on the California Aqueduct; A dam good job: Beavers as ecosystem engineers; Reclamation streamlines hydropower reviews; 2025 wildfires were the costliest ever, researchers say; and more …

Maven

Daily Digest

June 1, 2026

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NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Sinking land, shrinking capacity: DWR confronts subsidence on the California Aqueduct

Maven

Best of the Notebook Notebook News and Features Water project operations

June 1, 2026

Groundwater-driven land sinking in the San Joaquin Valley is reducing aqueduct capacity, prompting interim repairs and long-term planning. At Metropolitan...