PRESS RELEASE: Yurok Tribe restores prairie and salmon-spawning stream Yurok Tribe Ecosystems January 24, 2025Tribe Begins Restoring 60 Acres of Prairie, Two Miles of Lower Blue Creek for Fish and Wildlife Press release from...
STATE WATER CONTRACTORS: Delta Stewardship Council Rejects Attempt to Delay Delta Conveyance Project Geotechnical Activities State Water Contractors Delta Conveyance Project January 23, 2025Stewardship Council affirms planned geotechnical activities are not a covered action Press release from the State Water Contractors Today, the...
DAN WALTERS: Trump jumps back into California’s water wars with a pro-farmer decree Cal Matters Policy and regulation January 23, 2025By Dan Walters, Cal Matters It would be impossible to overstate the complexity of water supply management in California. Hundreds...
THE CONVERSATION: After the fire: Rain on wildfire burn scars can trigger deadly debris flows – a geologist explains how The Conversation Wildfires and watersheds January 23, 2025By Jen Pierce, Boise State University While firefighters work to extinguish the Los Angeles-area wildfires, city officials and emergency managers...
PRESS RELEASE: U.S. EPA urges swift action on Bay-Delta Plan in support of Tribal and Bay-Delta communities Restore the Delta Policy and regulation January 23, 2025DTEC urges the State Water Board and the Governor to take EPA findings into account in completing Bay Delta Plan...
NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Quantum leap in collecting and unifying regional metrics on wetland health Estuary News Group EcosystemsNotebook News and Features January 23, 2025By Guananí Gómez-Van Cortright & Ariel Rubissow Okamoto In 1999, regional managers vowed to restore 100,000 acres of tidal wetlands...
NEWS: DWR submits petition to extend water rights permit Department of Water Resources (DWR) Delta Conveyance ProjectWater rights and water law January 23, 2025From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources yesterday filed a petition with the State Water Resources...
CAL MATTERS: Trump takes step to overhaul Delta water deliveries to farms, cities Cal Matters Policy and regulation January 22, 2025Trump apparently wants to override new Biden-Newsom rules that have widespread support among Southern California cities and some Central Valley...
SJV WATER: Kern subbasin’s groundwater plan still not up to snuff in state’s eyes SJV Water Groundwater News January 22, 2025By Lois Henry, SJV Water Kern water managers’ struck out again on their fourth attempt to write an adequate plan...
SJV WATER: Too little too late? Tulare County water managers work to hold off state pumping sanctions SJV Water Groundwater News January 22, 2025By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water Groundwater managers and others in southern Tulare County are scrambling to comply with state mandates...
MEMO: Petition for Extension of time to perfect conditional water rights under the State Water Project permits Department of Water Resources (DWR) Delta Conveyance ProjectWater project operations January 21, 2025Memo from the Department of Water Resources to the State Water Board: On August 22, 2024, the California Department of...
HIGH COUNTRY NEWS: What do the deadly Los Angeles fires mean for the city’s wildlife? High Country News Wildfires and watersheds January 21, 2025Wildlife biologist Miguel Ordeñana explains how blazes push animals into the unknown. By Kylie Mohr, High Country News Note: This...
NASA scientists find new human-caused shifts in global water cycle NASA/JPL Climate changeHydrologyScience January 21, 2025By Erica McNamee, NASA In a recently published paper, NASA scientists use nearly 20 years of observations to show that...
WHITE HOUSE: Putting People over Fish: Stopping Radical Environmentalism to Provide Water to Southern California President Trump Policy and regulation January 20, 2025From the Trump White House: MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR SUBJECT: Putting People over...
WATER SHELF PODCAST: “Water Management” by Shimon Anisfeld Justin Scott-Coe Author PodcastsWATER SHELF January 20, 2025Visit the Water Shelf main page Shimi Anisfeld kicks off Season 2 of the Water Shelf Podcast by introducing his...
