Report presents staff recommendations for incorporating climate change into water rights permitting California’s climate is changing rapidly, and historical data are quickly becoming no longer reliable for forecasting future conditions. Models indicate that in the coming years, California will see...
State Water Board member Laurel Firestone talks about the need to bring equity into our climate adaptation actions; Professor Karrigan Bork looks at temperature projections for California The California Water Law Symposium is an annual collaborative student-run event that brings...
Screening process for potential new Water Storage Investment Program projects At the December 2020 meeting, the California Water Commission approved moving forward with a screening process to find potential projects that could be eligible for the Water Storage Investment Program...
Data shows 686,000 acre-feet of water was recycled in 2019, far short of the state’s 2020 goal Recognizing the importance of recycled water as a critical water supply for California, the State Water Board in 2009 developed the Recycled Water...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] Critically overdrafted groundwater basins submitted their Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSPs) in January 2020, and high and medium priority subbasins...
The California Water Commission is in the process of assessing the state’s role in financing commands projects that could help meet the needs in a changing climate as tasked by action 19.4 in Governor Newsom’s water resilience portfolio. This work...
