An archive of articles addressing water management, ecosystem planning, climate resilience, and other solutions for managing natural resources.
With the grim reaper of legislation sure to be visiting the $11.14 billion water bond early in 2014 to officially...
At their October 24 meeting, the Delta Stewardship Council heard a briefing from Department of Water Resources Laura King Moon...
Volume 11, Issue 2 of San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science is now available online. This is a special issue that features nine essays by top scientists who write about the need for and difficulty in using science to guide...
In April of 2013, the Public Policy Institute of California released the report, Stress Relief: Prescriptions for Healthier Delta Ecosystem,...
On September 24, 2013, Metropolitan Water District’s Special Committee on the Bay-Delta was updated on the status of the Collaborative...
Currently, there are two bond measures that are working their way through the legislative process. Senator Lois Wolk has introduced SB 42 that would replace the current 2014 bond with the $6.475 billion “Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality, and Flood...
From Senator Wolk’s office: A joint hearing of the Senate Environmental Quality and Natural Resources and Water Committees heard presentations...
On September 19, the Department of Water Resources held a Delta regional forum as part of the update to the...
The State Legislature has adjourned for the year, punting the water bond, CEQA reform and the possible move of the drinking water program until after they return in January. Meanwhile in Washington, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster has...
California lacks a statewide sustainable groundwater management program, instead leaving groundwater under local control, and while there are a few...
California has long relied on surface reservoirs to manage the state’s fluctuating water supply as evidenced by the over 1300...
On March 20, 2013, the Assembly Select Committee on Regional Approaches to Addressing the State’s Water Crisis held an informational hearing titled “The Science of Storing Water.” The hearing featured DWR’s Kamyar Guivetchi giving an overview of water storage in...
At the August 22nd Delta Stewardship Council Meeting, Cindy Messer, Deputy Executive Officer, and Keith Coolidge, Executive Manager of External Affairs, updated...
Legislation passed in 2009 set an ambitious target for statewide water conservation: a 20% reduction in urban per capita water...
From 2000 to 2008, voters approved nearly $100 billion in general obligation bonds to fund the state’s infrastructure needs with about a quarter of that being approved for water infrastructure projects. However, not all of those bond funds have been...
