At its May 20 meeting, the California Water Commission received an update on implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, with DWR officials outlining new groundwater reporting, emerging work on groundwater trading and a renewed push to address land subsidence. The...
By Ag Alert An advisory committee to the California Department of Water Resources held its first meeting last week to begin work on the next update to the California Water Plan, the state’s long-range strategy for managing water resources across...
Findings from a weight-of-evidence review of summer-fall habitat actions in the San Francisco Estuary Delta smelt are a small open-water fish found only in the San Francisco Estuary. The species was listed under the federal and state Endangered Species Acts...
By Cariad Hayes Thronson, Knee Deep Times The ribbons of marsh squeezed between the Bay and the highways that skirt its edges are living relics of California’s gold mining history. Today, at locations in the East and North Bay, they...
By David Boutt, UMass Amherst About two-thirds of the U.S. is in some stage of drought in late spring 2026, yet at the same time the country has been seeing more intense downpours. It might seem contradictory, but both are...
