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DELTA COUNCIL: Appeals filed for the Delta Conveyance Project revised Certification of Consistency with the Delta Plan on remanded items

August 26, 2026

From the Delta Stewardship Council: The following parties have appealed the California Department of Water Resources’ Delta Conveyance Project Revised Certification...

DELTA SCIENCE PROGRAM: Final 2026 Delta Science Plan: Strengthening Science in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

Delta Stewardship Council

Delta science Planning and management

August 26, 2026

From the Delta Science Program: The Delta Science Program is proud to share that, following years of development and extensive...

COLORADO NEWSLINE: What climate science tells us about the causes of the Colorado River crisis

Colorado Newsline

Colorado River

August 26, 2026

Researchers have grown increasingly confident in global warming’s role in post-2000 ‘megadrought’ by Chase Woodruff, Colorado Newsline Elected officials from...

DAILY DIGEST, 8/25: Study: Data centers use more water than California cities; Paper: Biggest carbon polluters are to blame for half of water lost to climate change; California likely to get the worst of El Niño; Nevada sues to block federal Colorado River cuts. Is Arizona next? and more …

Maven

Daily Digest

August 25, 2026

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KNOWABLE: How much of a problem is AI’s water use?

Knowable Magazine

Planning and management

August 25, 2026

It depends. Though water consumption by data centers pales in comparison to that of some other industries, it’s a problem...

UCS: New study shows emissions from major climate polluters worsening water scarcity in California

Union of Concerned Scientists

Climate change

August 25, 2026

From the Union of Concerned Scientists: A new peer-reviewed study published today in Nature’s Communications Earth and Environment journal by...

INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: The biggest carbon polluters are to blame for half of Western water lost to climate change, ‘groundbreaking’ paper says

Inside Climate News

Climate change

August 25, 2026

Some of the most impactful changes have come in the stressed Colorado River basin. By Jake Bolster, Inside Climate News...

NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Pop-up wetlands for birds expand into Suisun Marsh

Robin Meadows

Fish and wildlife Notebook News and Features

August 25, 2026

by Robin Meadows It’s a hot, mid-summer day but a welcome breeze keeps a team of bird conservationists cool as...

USGS: In San Francisco Bay, even an exceptionally wet year can’t supply enough sediment to keep pace with rising seas, new study finds

USGS

Climate change Ecosystems Research article

August 25, 2026

From the USGS Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program Extreme rainfall can send huge amounts of sediment rushing off...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: California Supreme Court halts SoCal town’s water utility takeover

Courthouse News Service

Planning and management

August 25, 2026

The water utility serving the town of Apple Valley had asked the state high court to decide what makes a...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Nevada files suit over Colorado River plan

Courthouse News Service

Colorado River

August 25, 2026

The Silver State claims a key document failed to consider the economic impacts communities would face because of the water...

NEVADA CURRENT: Nevada sues feds over Colorado River cuts

Nevada Current

Colorado River

August 25, 2026

by Jeniffer Solis, Nevada Current Nevada officials have filed the first lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s Colorado River plan, a...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Arizona water use up in the air pending Nevada lawsuit

Courthouse News Service

Colorado River

August 25, 2026

Water officials celebrated Arizona’s outcome in the Bureau of Reclamation’s final Colorado River use guidelines, but say they will not...

DAILY DIGEST, 8/24: Earth’s oceans just broke a heat record. The implications will be massive; The 15-day window that may decide salmon survival; Bigger, hotter fires are slowly erasing America’s great forests; Arizona’s bid for California water could run into political headwinds; and more …

Maven

Daily Digest

August 24, 2026

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UC DAVIS: A secret to survival for California’s most endangered salmon

UC Davis

Fish and wildlife

August 24, 2026

By Michael Milstein, UC Davis A secret to the survival of juvenile salmon as they form in their eggs is...