C-WIN: Coming Clean: State Water Resources Control Board Finally Acknowledges “Paper Water” Press Release/Notice Press Release/Other January 10, 2024 729Figures in the Agency’s New Bay-Delta Plan Update Confirm What Water Reform Advocates Have Long Maintained: California Water Rights Claims...
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 NotebookNews January 9, 2024 586Project aims to develop new tools to allocate limited water supplies By Janet Byron Joan Didion wrote in the 1970s...
AG ALERT: New Year brings new laws, policies affecting farmers Ag Alert News January 3, 2024 203By Caleb Hampton, Ag Alert With the New Year comes a slew of new state and federal policies designed to...
AG ALERT COMMENTARY: Data tool emerges as water-rights threat is defeated Ag Alert Commentary October 4, 2023 139By Alexandra Biering, senior policy advocate for the California Farm Bureau In the past several years, the equity and effectiveness...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: California Fish and Wildlife director still on the hook in water rights suit Courthouse News Service News October 2, 2023 1507Three claims remain against Charlton Bonham, executive director of the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife, and certain others can...
DAN WALTERS: Water rights reformers scored only a minor victory in the Legislature Cal Matters News September 17, 2023 261Three measures to overhaul state oversight of water use, giving the state water board more authority over holders of senior...
PRESS RELEASE: Coalition of Conservation Groups Unite in Opposition To Sites Reservoir, Formally Protest Water Right Press Release/Notice Press Release/Other September 1, 2023 465Friends of the River (FOR) and the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA), two of California’s oldest and most respected water...
COMMENTARY: Ending Mono Lake diversions to Los Angeles would help the environment but hurt the climate Cal Matters Commentary July 13, 2023 129The environmental costs of ending water diversions from Mono Lake to Los Angeles would be mixed: It might help a...
CENTER SQUARE: California Democrats move forward bill to chip away historic water rights The Center Square News July 12, 2023 538By Kenneth Schrupp | The Center Square The California Assembly Committee on Water, Parks, and Wildlife today passed a bill...
AG ALERT: Coalition opposes bills to overhaul water rights rules Ag Alert News June 20, 2023 196From Christine Souza, Ag Alert As California experiences wild swings in climate from drought to floods, critics of the state’s...
NOTICE: Posting of Additional Information for Water Right Permit Application A025517X01 of Sites Project Authority – Colusa, Glenn, and Tehama Counties Press Release/Notice ANNOUNCEMENTS June 20, 2023 50From the State Water Resources Control Board: Please be advised that Sites Project Authority submitted additional information in support of...
DAN WALTERS: California water rights at risk as three legislative proposals advance Cal Matters News June 11, 2023 84By Dan Walters, CalMatters Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters today...
CAL MATTERS: California ranchers intentionally violated an emergency water order. Now lawmakers want to triple the fines Cal Matters News June 9, 2023 49By Rachel Becker, CalMatters When ranchers violated an emergency order to stop pumping water from the drought-plagued Shasta River last...
NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Water rights key to San Joaquin Valley aquifer recharge Robin Meadows News June 8, 2023 485Written by Robin Meadows It sounds like such a simple fix for California’s groundwater woes. In phenomenally wet years like...
COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE: Fight over Oregon’s Klamath water can stay in federal court, Ninth Circuit rules Courthouse News Service News June 5, 2023 8A Ninth Circuit panel ruled against the Klamath Irrigation District in its attempt to move a dispute over the allocation...