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USBR: Straining against invasion: Updated duplex strainer baskets installed alongside new UV light technology at Glen Canyon Dam to continue the fight against quagga mussels

February 27, 2024

From the Bureau of the Reclamation: If left unattended, quagga mussels can cause extensive harm to a facility and the...

NOW AVAILABLE: Department of Water Resources Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report for the Pulse Flows Component of the Water Storage Investment Program Groundwater Projects Now Available for Public Review and Comment

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

February 25, 2024

From the Department of Water Resources: The California Department of Water Resources (DWR), in compliance with the California Environmental Quality...

CAL MATTERS: California’s polluted communities could miss out on billions under state’s flawed system

Cal Matters

Policy and regulation

February 23, 2024

The state’s environmental tool skews which communities are designated as disadvantaged, researchers say. Some immigrant neighborhoods could be left out,...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Facing future of shortages, Colorado River users dream of making more water

Courthouse News Service

Colorado River Water supply augmentation

February 23, 2024

Annual Colorado River flows have decreased an average of four million acre-feet since the 21st century, while the number of...

USGS: San Francisco Bay Shallow Water Strategic Placement Pilot Project

USGS

Climate change Delta science

February 23, 2024

The USGS is providing support for an innovative project between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, California Coastal Conservancy, and...

SAN JOAQUIN RIVER RESTORATION PGM: 2024 Restoration Flows

Maven

ANNOUNCEMENTS

February 23, 2024

From the San Joaquin River Restoration Program: On January 19, the Bureau of Reclamation issued the initial allocation for the...

NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Future extremes: New models zoom in on California snowpacks and storms

Robin Meadows

Notebook News and Features Planning and management

February 23, 2024

by Robin Meadows When it comes to water, winter is a time of promise and peril in California. Our fate...

REACTIONS: Restore the Delta and San Francisco Baykeeper respond to DWR submitting petition for Delta Conveyance Project

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Delta Conveyance Project

February 23, 2024

Restore the Delta: DWR files petition to change Delta water rights despite civil rights investigation by the US EPA The...

BERKELEY LAB: Air pollution hides increases in rainfall: As aerosol emissions diminish, average and extreme rains may ramp up

Berkeley Lab

Climate change

February 23, 2024

For much of the last century, the drying effect of aerosols has masked increases in rainfall from greenhouse gases –...

VOICE OF SAN DIEGO: For Sale: Water Authority’s de-salted ocean water

Voice of San Diego

Water supply augmentation

February 23, 2024

A small Orange County water district is potentially interested in purchasing some water from San Diego’s desalination plant to keep...

USGS: New publication looks at wildfire policy in the US

USGS

Policy and regulation Reports Wildfires and watersheds

February 23, 2024

A comprehensive OECD Environmental Policy Paper on wildfire risk, policy, and strategy in the United States explains how to incorporate...

THIS JUST IN … DWR submits change in point of diversion petition for the Delta Conveyance Project to State Water Board, appeals bond validation decision

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Delta Conveyance Project

February 22, 2024

From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) has submitted a Change in Point of Diversion Petition for...

PRESS RELEASE: Friant Water Authority (FWA) seeks more money from local groundwater pumping, while demanding that land subsidence cease

Friant Water Authority

Groundwater News

February 22, 2024

Press release from the Eastern Tule Groundwater Sustainability Agency (ETGSA) FWA and Arvin Edison Water Storage District have filed a...

NOW AVAILABLE: DWR Releases First Paper on Depletions of Interconnected Surface Water: An Introduction

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Fact Sheets/Tools/Info Groundwater News

February 22, 2024

From the Department of Water Resources: To help Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) appropriately address depletions of interconnected surface water (ISW)...

C-WIN: State Water Resources Control Board counters big lie from Big Ag

CA Water Impact Network (C-WIN)

Agriculture

February 22, 2024

Agency Acknowledges Enhanced Delta Flows Won’t Harm Agriculture From the California Water Impact Network: Despite receiving the lion’s share of...