AG ALERT: Costs spike, fields go fallow in Klamath Ag Alert Agriculture June 22, 2022By Kathy Coatney, Ag Alert The Klamath Basin has dealt with reduced water for decades, but this year is particularly...
WEBINAR RECORDING: How to read a Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP) Maven Groundwater NewsWebinars June 22, 2022Did you know, in the San Joaquin Valley, there are 128 Groundwater Sustainability Plans? Are you wondering: What’s a Groundwater...
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION: Quarterly Meeting on the 2021 Reconsultation of the Long-Term Operation of the CVP and SWP Maven Notebook News and FeaturesWater project operations June 22, 2022For the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project to comply with the federal Endangered Species Act, the Bureau...
FIVE QUESTIONS: John McManus, Golden State Salmon Association Maven Fish and wildlifeNotebook News and Features June 21, 2022Welcome to Five Questions, a new (hopefully) weekly series that will pose five questions to folks working on California water...
ACWA CONFERENCE: The tale of curtailments: Legal and operational responses to the ongoing drought Maven Best of the NotebookNotebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation June 16, 2022Panel discusses temporary urgency change petitions, transfers, and drought litigation As California enters the second year of dry conditions, many...
AG ALERT: Drought picture grows more bleak for agriculture Ag Alert Agriculture June 15, 2022By Christine Souza, Ag Alert As California toils through a third consecutive drought year, many Sacramento Valley farmers, well known...
AG ALERT: Klamath dust storms harm farmlands, erode soils Ag Alert Agriculture June 15, 2022By Kathy Coatney, Ag Alert Growers in the Klamath Basin have struggled with water-supply shortages for years, but this spring...
STATELINE: Feds Will Cut States’ Access to Colorado River Water Stateline Colorado River June 15, 2022by Matt Vasilogambros, Stateline Top federal water officials are warning Western states that there will be cuts to their access...
ESTUARY NEWS: Living with a Novel Landscape: Suisun Evolves Estuary News Group Science June 14, 2022by Michael Hunter Adamson, Estuary News Group Morning at Suisun Marsh is a living watercolor with a soundtrack. Miles of...
NEVADA CURRENT: Federal agency warns Colorado River Basin water usage could be cut as drought worsens Nevada Current Colorado River June 14, 2022by Jennifer Shutt, Nevada Current The federal agency in charge of managing much of the West’s water warned Tuesday that...
ESTUARY NEWS: Reorienting to Salmon Recovery Estuary News Group Delta scienceFish and wildlifeNotebook News and Features June 13, 2022by Alastair Bland, Estuary News Group The days when salmon and steelhead teemed in California’s coastal watersheds faded away last...
GUEST COMMENTARY: California Can (and Must) Drought-Proof Itself SoCal Water Coalition Commentary June 13, 2022Commentary by Jim Wundermanm president and CEO of the Bay Area Council, and Charles Wilson, executive director and CEO of...
ESTUARY NEWS: Sniffing the Delta for Greenhouse Gases Estuary News Group Climate changeDelta science June 10, 2022by Janet Byron, Estuary News Group Dutch Slough in Oakley, on the southern edge of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, is...
DELTA WATERMASTER: Water use reporting, Investigation of alleged unlawful water diversion in the Delta, Implementation of the Delta Dry-year Response Program, and more … Maven Notebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation June 9, 2022At the May 24th meeting of the State Water Resources Control Board, Delta Watermaster Michael George updated the board members...
COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE: Scientists find the Colorado River was blighted by a worse drought in the 2nd century Courthouse News Service Colorado River June 9, 2022A new study shows that, more than a thousand years ago, the Colorado River Basin had an even worse drought...