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PRESERVING OUR WATERSHEDS: How Placer County Water Agency and Yuba Water Agency are reducing wildfire risk to protect water supplies

November 12, 2024

By Jim Peifer, Executive Director, Regional Water Authority Though summer is behind us, the risk of wildfires persists in our...

NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Numerous appeals filed for DWR’s consistency determination for the Delta Conveyance Project geotechnical activities

Maven

Delta Conveyance Project Notebook News and Features

November 10, 2024

The appeals allege numerous inconsistencies with Delta Plan policies and say piecemealing the project is inconsistent with CEQA Last Friday,...

SJV WATER: Madera County project aims to curb groundwater pull by paying farmers to find new uses for land

SJV Water

Groundwater News

November 9, 2024

By Jesse Vad, SJV Water Residents and advocates in the small community of Fairmead have been working for years to...

NIDIS: New research finds rising heat driving Western droughts

NIDIS

Hydrology

November 9, 2024

Higher temperatures can cause droughts even with normal precipitation Higher temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change made an ordinary drought...

DELTA STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL: Appeals Filed for 2024-2026 Delta Conveyance Project Proposed Geotechnical Activities

Delta Stewardship Council

Delta Conveyance Project

November 8, 2024

From the Delta Stewardship Council: The following parties have appealed the California Department of Water Resources Certification of Consistency (C20242)...

CAL MATTERS: Here we go again: California prepares to battle Trump over environmental policies

Cal Matters

Policy and regulation

November 8, 2024

A lot is at stake with the new Trump administration: California’s water projects, its unique authority to clean its air,...

WATER DESK: Post-fire study finds snowpack melts earlier

The Water Desk

Hydrology Wildfires and watersheds

November 8, 2024

Loss of forest canopy and deposition of ash alter forest hydrology By Mitch Tobin, Water Desk As the American West...

THE CURRENT: Atmospheric rivers are shifting toward the poles, possibly following a long-term cycle

UC Santa Barbara

Hydrology

November 8, 2024

By Harrison Tasoff, UC Santa Barbara Against the backdrop of global warming, sea level rise and extreme weather, it’s reassuring...

ESSAY: Water wasted to sea?

San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science

Commentary

November 8, 2024

By James E. Cloern, Jane Kay, Wim Kimmerer, Jeffrey Mount, Peter B. Moyle, and Anke Müeller–Solger If we farmed the...

COMMENTARY: Sites Reservoir: A Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity 

Sites Project Authority

Commentary

November 8, 2024

By Fritz Durst, Chair, Sites Project Authority Water is a precious resource in California—and like any smart investment strategy, we...

EPA: How EPA scientists use fish eDNA to assess estuarine health

US Environmental Protection Agency

Fish and wildlife Science

November 8, 2024

By Sarah Whichello, Oak Ridge Associated Universities Research Participant with EPA. Estuaries are waterbodies where freshwater from the uplands mixes...

SJV WATER: Lawsuit accuses Friant Water Authority of holding secret meetings that resulted in massive fees pinned on a handful of Tulare County irrigation districts

SJV Water

Groundwater News

November 6, 2024

By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water The legal fracas over who should pay to fix the sinking Friant-Kern Canal grew Friday...

AG ALERT: State Water Board seeks comments on Bay-Delta plan

Ag Alert

Policy and regulation

November 6, 2024

By Christine Souza, Ag Alert California water officials are taking another step forward as part of a broader process to...

NOTICE of Staff Workshop on Proposed Changes to the Water Measurement and Reporting Regulation

State Water Board

ANNOUNCEMENTS

November 6, 2024

From the State Water Resources Control Board: That State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) staff will hold a...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: New California water permit seeks to balance water delivery with environmental protections

Courthouse News Service

Water project operations

November 5, 2024

Part of the permit’s implementation will include methods for environmental restoration and spawning projects to benefit endangered species like the...