Equity Archives

NOTEBOOK FEATURE: COEQWAL and Just Transitions: Innovative projects tackle California’s water future

Maven

Notebook News and Features Planning and management

June 3, 2025

Second series of workshops for the Just Transitions project to take place on June 7 and June 9 California is...

UC DAVIS: How urban streams, climate change and unhoused people intertwine

UC Davis

Water quality

January 28, 2025

Beyond shelters and sweeps, streamside science seeks compassionate solutions for people experiencing homelessness By Kat Kerlin, UC Davis In Fairfield,...

PRESS RELEASE: U.S. EPA urges swift action on Bay-Delta Plan in support of Tribal and Bay-Delta communities

Restore the Delta

Policy and regulation

January 23, 2025

DTEC urges the State Water Board and the Governor to take EPA findings into account in completing Bay Delta Plan...

PRESS RELEASE: Tribal-Environmental Coalition calls for justice and equity in Bay-Delta Water Quality Plan

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Policy and regulation

January 14, 2025

Press release from the Delta Tribal-Environmental Coalition: Administrative comments filed last Friday by the Delta Tribal Environmental Coalition (DTEC) urge...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Judge rules against Northern California county in water access race discrimination case

Courthouse News Service

Policy and regulation

October 26, 2024

Attorneys have two weeks to submit briefs on the scope of the injunction the judge will issue. By Alan Riquelmy,...

Q & A: Today’s data and past history could add up to a more equitable way to divvy up California’s water

Janet Byron

Best of the Notebook Notebook News and Features Water rights and water law

January 9, 2024

Project aims to develop new tools to allocate limited water supplies By Janet Byron Joan Didion wrote in the 1970s...

UCSB CURRENT: The more stakeholders are included in groundwater planning, the better those policies protect them

UC Santa Barbara

Groundwater News

June 27, 2023

By Harrison Tasoff, UC Santa Barbara Current Having a seat at the table, and voices heard, makes a world of...

CALIFORNIA WATER PLAN: The state’s integrated plan for water management

Maven

Notebook News and Features Planning and management

May 17, 2023

The California Water Plan is the state’s strategic roadmap for managing the state’s precious water resources equitably and sustainably. First...

GUEST COMMENTARY: California’s water debt crisis needs a long-term fix

Guest Contributor

Commentary Policy and regulation

August 8, 2022

Commentary by Ileana Miranda, resident of San Jerardo in Monterey County and general manager of the San Jerardo Cooperative From...

THIS JUST IN … Press release: Tribes and Environmental Justice Groups Link Bay-Delta Collapse to Water Rights from California’s Racist Past

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Water rights and water law

May 24, 2022

Press release from the coalition of Winnemem Wintu Tribe, Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Save California Salmon, Little Manila...

RISING VOICES: Pacoima Beautiful, water and heat in the San Fernando Valley

The Water Hub

Policy and regulation

August 3, 2021

Rising Voices is a new monthly-ish column from the Water Hub at Climate Nexus. Each month, we’re listening to what...

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Building Socioecological Resilience by Confronting Environmental Injustice: A Participatory Approach

Maven

Delta science

July 9, 2020

Sea Grant is a federal-state partnership between NOAA and the 34 university-based programs in every coastal and Great Lakes states,...

NEW REPORT: Low-Income Water Rate Assistance Program Report to the Legislature

Maven

Planning and management Reports

February 29, 2020

The Low-Income Water Rate Assistance Act established through Assembly Bill 401 (Dodd, 2015) directs the State Water Resources Control Board...

NEW REPORTS: Innovation in action: 21st century water infrastructure solutions; Funding a future for water in the San Joaquin Valley; Water Smart housing development; Closing the water access gap in the United States

Maven

Reports Water project operations

November 23, 2019

Innovation in Action: 21st Century Water Infrastructure Solutions From the Water Now Alliance: “Innovation in Action: 21st Century Water Infrastructure...