The Delta Stewardship Council previously rejected several appeals, but left the door open for review of an invasive species and a concurrent water project. By Alan Riquelmy, Courthouse News Service Groups opposed to California’s Delta Conveyance Project had a second...
by Marek Warszawski, Fresnoland This story was originally published by Fresnoland, a nonprofit news organization It’s salmon squeezing time at California’s newest, most technologically advanced fish hatchery. Standing in a large tank filled with 54 degree water, a fish technician...
By Edward Ring, director of water and energy policy for the California Policy Center Not quite two years ago an influential book, “Abundance,” by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson challenged the conventional liberal approach to achieving affordability and equity. They...
By Paul Gosselin, DWR Deputy Director for Sustainable Water Management California’s weather extremes are a reminder that managing our groundwater resources requires planning for both drought and floods. After a warm spring that rapidly melted the State’s snowpack, forecasts now...
Irrigated farmland serves as a landscape-scale buffer to wildfire, creating major tradeoffs between water-saving drought adaptation efforts and shifting wildfire...
Using satellite technology, Virginia Tech geoscientists estimated groundwater depletion across the Colorado River Basin, finding recent losses greater in the historically resilient Upper Basin. By Kelly Izlar, Virginia Tech Declining Colorado River flows and falling water levels at Lake Powell...