Delta water quality standards Archives ~ MAVEN'S NOTEBOOK

C-WIN: Mirroring the Trump Playbook: Eliminating CEQA review for water quality control plans would weaken California’s democratic integrity

CA Water Impact Network (C-WIN)

Commentary Policy and regulation

September 5, 2025

By Max Gomberg, C-WIN In California we are fortunate to have both state and federal law to protect our rivers,...

State Water Board issues advance notice of probable curtailments under standard water right Term 91

State Water Board

Current Conditions

June 19, 2025

From the State Water Resources Control Board: This [notice] is to notify water right permit and license holders with Standard...

DELTA COUNCIL: Anticipating the next drought: DWR’s plans for rapid barrier construction

Maven

Notebook News and Features Planning and management

April 3, 2025

California frequently experiences multi-year droughts, a natural aspect of our highly variable climate. However, climate change intensifies both the frequency...

OPPORTUNITY TO COMMENT: Draft Reclamation 2025 Annual Work Plan for the Lower San Joaquin River

State Water Board

ANNOUNCEMENTS

June 7, 2024

Notice from the State Water Board: The United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) has posted the Fiscal Year 2025 draft...

BAY DELTA PLAN: State Water Board adopts initial biological goals for the Lower San Joaquin River

Maven

Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

September 12, 2023

The biological goals will inform adaptive implementation methods for flows, evaluate the effectiveness of implementing the Lower San Joaquin River...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Feds’ discrimination claim over California salinity standards deemed premature

Courthouse News Service

Water rights and water law

August 30, 2023

The bureau claimed the state’s standards — which it called discriminatory — would hamper its operation of the New Melones...

CAL MATTERS COMMENTARY: Newsom’s Delta decisions are the sort of responsive moves California needs for water crisis

Cal Matters

Commentary Water project operations

March 17, 2023

The decision to suspend environmental regulations for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta – and then reverse it a few weeks later...

CAL MATTERS COMMENTARY: Waiving California environmental rules for Delta water equates to a civil rights issue

Cal Matters

Commentary Water project operations

March 17, 2023

Despite reversing course last week, the February decision by Gov. Gavin Newsom and state water officials to bypass environmental rules...

PRESS RELEASE: State Water Board rescinds suspension of Delta water quality requirement

State Water Board

Water project operations

March 9, 2023

From the State Water Resources Control Board: In late February, the State Water Resources Control Board approved a petition from...

THIS JUST IN … Order Modifying an Order that Approved a Temporary Urgency Change Petition Filed by the California DWR and Reclamation

State Water Board

Water project operations

March 9, 2023

For the State Water Resources Control Board: On March 9, 2023, the State Water Resources Control Board Executive Director issued...

THIS JUST IN … Coalition Issues Intent to Sue Over Governor’s Decision to Suspend Water Quality Protections

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Water quality Water rights and water law

March 9, 2023

From the California Water Impact Network (C-WIN): A coalition of environmental groups – the California Water Impact Network, the California Sportfishing...