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    EDWARD RING: Will advocates for more water supply projects find unity?

    Edward Ring
    CommentaryWater project operations
    December 11, 2025
    By Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center There’s only one way to restore...

    C-WIN: Follow the Money: The Central Valley Project

    CA Water Impact Network (C-WIN)
    CommentaryPolicy and regulation
    December 11, 2025
    Second in a series on the fiscal and social inequities of California’s major water projects By Carolee Krieger, California Water...

    DAILY DIGEST, 12/10: NOAA’s denial of endangered status for salmon sparks talk of legal challenge; With a target on their bellies, can California’s sturgeon survive?; Land IQ Insights: Mapping California crops for smarter ag decisions; Lawmakers oppose greens’ call for data center moratorium; and more …

    Maven
    Daily Digest
    December 10, 2025
    [cmtoc_table_of_contents] Several news sources featured in the Daily Digest may limit the number of articles you can access without a...

    MONGABAY: With a target on their bellies, can California’s sturgeon survive?

    Mongabay
    Fish and wildlife
    December 10, 2025
    By Laurel Neme, Mongabay Key points: California’s green sturgeon and white sturgeon face numerous threats from dams, harmful algal blooms...

    FRESNOLAND: Fresno takes on ‘forever chemicals’ in second major water contamination lawsuit

    Fresnoland
    Water quality
    December 10, 2025
    The city is hoping to take its suit alleging PFAS contamination of the city’s groundwater, by more than 40 companies,...

    SJV WATER: Newly formed Tulare County water district already busy wheeling and dealing for water

    SJV Water
    Groundwater News
    December 10, 2025
    By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water A new Tulare County water district is on a tight timeline to balance an opportunity...

    DAILY DIGEST, 12/9: CA signals fight over federal plan to increase Delta water exports; The biggest threat to the Delta you’ve (probably) never heard of; Salmon may be rebounding after three wet winters; States push to end secrecy over data center water use; and more …

    Maven
    Daily Digest
    December 9, 2025
    [cmtoc_table_of_contents] Several news sources featured in the Daily Digest may limit the number of articles you can access without a...

    NOTEBOOK FEATURE: The biggest threat to the Delta you’ve (probably) never heard of 

    Robin Meadows
    Best of the NotebookNotebook News and FeaturesWater quality
    December 9, 2025
    Excess sediment in the South Delta puts the water supply and the ecosystem at risk by Robin Meadows In 1962,...

    COURTHOUSE NEWS: West Coast Chinook salmon denied federal protections

    Courthouse News Service
    Fish and wildlife
    December 9, 2025
    The Center for Biological Diversity, a group petitioning for the protections, lambasted the Trump administration for the decision. By Alan...

    NOAA FISHERIES: A restored reef brings fish habitat back to Southern California

    NOAA Fisheries
    Fish and wildlife
    December 9, 2025
    New monitoring shows the Palos Verdes Reef restoration project has increased fish biomass by over 150 percent just 4 years...

    THE CONVERSATION: PFAS in pregnant women’s drinking water puts their babies at higher risk, study finds

    The Conversation
    Water quality
    December 9, 2025
    By Derek Lemoine, University of Arizona; Ashley Langer, University of Arizona, and Bo Guo, University of Arizona When pregnant women...

    DAILY DIGEST, 12/8: Companies are racing to fuel and cool AI; Pine Flat Dam upgrade proposed to boost water storage in San Joaquin Valley; To save salmon runs and fishing jobs CA needs new water rules; Toxic PFAS chemicals found in San Joaquin County pesticides; and more …

    Maven
    Daily Digest
    December 8, 2025
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    NEW BOOK: Body in a Barrel

    Press Release/Notice
    WATER SHELF
    December 7, 2025
    Visit the Water Shelf main page FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Aaron Mead, amead@ameadwriter.com, 626-616-4473 Debut fiction: A body in a...

    JIM CLOERN: The scientist and science I mourn

    Guest Contributor
    Commentary
    December 7, 2025
    By Ariel Rubissow Okamoto A man died recently who was one of my heroes. Inside his big brain lay the secrets...

    COURTHOUSE NEWS: King tides offer a stark preview of future sea levels on California coast

    Courthouse News Service
    Climate change
    December 7, 2025
    The king tides that ravage the California coast every winter occur when Earth is at its closest to the sun....
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    DAILY DIGEST, 9/22: Sacramento River has gotten too warm for its salmon; Newsom declares state of emergency to prepare for Super El Niño; Tracking Harmful Algal Blooms in the Delta; Unpacking the latest developments on the Colorado River; and more …

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