Human right to water Archives ~ MAVEN'S NOTEBOOK

December 18, 2025

Commentary by Adán Ortega, Executive Director of CalMutuals, an association dedicated to ensuring effective and compliant operation and governance of...

PRESS RELEASE: SAFER water for California’s future: Legislature moves to continue safe drinking water program past 2030

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Policy and regulation

September 11, 2025

Press release from multiple organizations Today, the Governor and Legislature released a three-party deal that would protect safe drinking water...

PRESS RELEASE: Racial discrimination complaint names State Water Board as partly to blame for fertilizer contamination in Central Coast drinking wells

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Water quality Water rights and water law

March 22, 2024

Press release This week, Latino community groups were joined by Monterey Waterkeeper and the Environmental Justice and Common Good Initiative...

C-WIN: Ten Years After: Tracking the Promises, Accomplishments and Shortfalls of California’s Human Right to Water Law

CA Water Impact Network (C-WIN)

Policy and regulation

September 29, 2023

From the California Water Impact Network (C-WIN): In 2012, California passed the Human Right to Water Law (HRTW), the first state statute...

STANFORD NEWS: The Human Right to Water

Stanford University

Policy and regulation

May 12, 2023

Stanford engineer discusses water equity in California and the U.S. By Rob Jordan, Associate Editor of Environment and Sustainability at...

PLANNING & CONSERVATION LEAGUE: Updating California Water Laws in the Face of Droughts and Climate Change #2

Maven

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

March 23, 2023

Water rights have garnered increasing attention as water managers and decision-makers grapple with how best to respond to changing conditions. ...

ACWA CONFERENCE: Water Law “Update” Or Revolution?

Maven

Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation Water rights and water law

July 21, 2022

Panel discusses recommendations to update California water laws to address drought and climate change California’s prolonged drought and the increasing...

PLANNING & CONSERVATION LEAGUE: Updating California Water Laws in the Face of Droughts/Climate Change

Maven

Notebook News and Features Water rights and water law

February 16, 2022

California’s current system of water laws seems ill-equipped to respond to long-term droughts and climate change. One million Californians do...

THIS JUST IN … Planning and Conservation League releases report: Updating California water laws to address drought and climate change

Planning and Conservation League

Climate change Policy and regulation Reports Water rights and water law

February 3, 2022

From the Planning and Conservation League: Summers are getting hotter. Rain and snowpack are disappearing, and water reserves are shrinking....

FEATURE: Water Justice: Linking local, regional, and state responses for implementing the Human Right to Water

Maven

Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

January 19, 2022

In the fall of 2021, the Delta Stewardship Council held a series of four webinars focusing on the social and...

RISING VOICES: Rising Voices: Water Affordability and Shrinking Wells

The Water Hub

Planning and management

October 6, 2021

Each month, the Water Hub is checking in with advocates & organizers in California to talk about water issues impacting...

RISING VOICES: Realizing the human right to water

The Water Hub

Policy and regulation

September 8, 2021

Each month, the Water Hub is checking in advocates and organizers in California to talk about the water issues impacting...

ACWA CONFERENCE PANEL: Reconciling the Regulatory Overlap of Groundwater Programs

Maven

Groundwater News Notebook News and Features

July 7, 2021

Several regulatory programs have been created and evolved over time to address various issues, such as SGMA, CV-SALTS, and the...

WATER LAW SYMPOSIUM: Climate change adaptation, equity, and water

Maven

Climate change Notebook News and Features

February 18, 2021

State Water Board member Laurel Firestone talks about the need to bring equity into our climate adaptation actions; Professor Karrigan...

SGMA IN ACTION: Challenges and opportunities, Environmental justice considerations, and first lawsuits over GSP plans

Maven

Best of the Notebook Groundwater News Notebook News and Features

January 13, 2021

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] Critically overdrafted groundwater basins submitted their Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSPs) in January 2020, and high and medium priority subbasins...