Water storage Archives

August 15, 2026

Climate change will almost certainly feature prominently in any multi-state litigation over the Colorado River. A court case over an...

NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Could water rights scuttle Sites?

Cariad Hayes Thronson

Notebook News and Features Water rights and water law

July 20, 2026

By Cariad Hayes Thronson In late June, a controversial new reservoir project in Northern California received a commitment for nearly...

WATER STORAGE INVESTMENT PGM: Chino Basin Program update highlights progress, costs, and public benefit

Maven

Planning and management

June 9, 2026

IEUA says the project’s dependable Table A and recycled water supplies set it apart from other WSIP projects and justify...

UC BOULDER: Colorado River Basin storage continues slide toward system crash

University of Colorado at Boulder

Colorado River

June 2, 2026

By Anne Castle, Jack Schmidt, Eric Kuhn, Kathryn Sorensen, Katherine Tara Stored water reserves in the Colorado River system continue to decline. The mismatch...

PRESS RELEASE: Sites Project Authority urges revisions to draft water rights permit

Sites Project Authority

Water project operations

May 26, 2026

Press release from the Sites Project Authority: Today, the Sites Project Authority released the following statement related to its comments...

WATER DESK: The driest year revisited: Five takeaways from 2002 for today’s Colorado River

The Water Desk

Colorado River

April 24, 2026

Experts weigh in on what we learned during the region’s worst drought on record, and how those lessons might help...

EDWARD RING: California’s drought is over, but we still must invest in water supply projects

Edward Ring

Commentary Planning and management

January 31, 2026

Commentary by Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center For the last 25 years,...

PRESS RELEASE: Drinking water for nearly 1.1 million people could have been captured during recent storm if Sites Reservoir were operational today

Sites Project Authority

Planning and management

January 5, 2026

Press release from the Sites Project Authority The Sites Project Authority announced that during the recent atmospheric river events, Sites...

NOW AVAILABLE: Reclamation seeks public input on draft environmental impact statement for Del Puerto Canyon Reservoir Project

Bureau of Reclamation News

Planning and management

December 14, 2025

Proposed project would provide up to 82,000 acre-feet of new offstream water storage Press release from the Bureau of Reclamation...

EDWARD RING: The cost and the upside of the “big gulp”

Edward Ring

Commentary Water project operations

September 25, 2025

By Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Policy Center Of all the possible ways to...

COMMENTARY: Sites Reservoir is a wolf in sheep’s clothing

Press Release/Notice

Commentary Policy and regulation

August 22, 2025

The controversial project diverts water and funding away from real solutions From Save California Salmon Today’s announcement that Governor Newsom’s...