GUEST COMMENTARY: California’s water debt crisis needs a long-term fix

Guest Contributor

CommentaryPolicy and regulation

August 8, 2022

Commentary by Ileana Miranda, resident of San Jerardo in Monterey County and general manager of the San Jerardo Cooperative From...

DAN WALTERS: Old issue plagues Newsom’s Delta tunnel project

Cal Matters

CommentaryDelta Conveyance ProjectPolicy and regulation

August 7, 2022

An old conflict plagues Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to bore a tunnel to carry water under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta...

WEBINAR SUMMARY: Environmental governance in the Delta

Maven

Delta scienceScience

August 4, 2022

In the spring of 2022, the Delta Science Program hosted a series of lunchtime webinars focused on governance in the...

DWR NEWS: Going with the Flow: How Aquifer Recharge Reduces Flood Risk

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Groundwater News

August 3, 2022

By DWR News On a small scale, aquifers — subsurface natural basins — have benefitted from man-made recharge for decades....

AG ALERT: Alternatives sought for farm fallowing amid dust worries

Ag Alert

AgricultureGroundwater News

August 3, 2022

By Christine Souza, Ag Alert As local groundwater sustainability agencies bring groundwater basins into balance under the Sustainable Groundwater Management...

FEATURE: How Wildfire-damaged Plastic Pipes Contaminate Drinking water – and What We Can Do About It

Robin Meadows

Best of the NotebookNotebook News and FeaturesWater qualityWildfires and watersheds

August 3, 2022

Written for Maven’s Notebook by Robin Meadows The first time a reporter asked public health researcher Gina Solomon if wildfires...

DWR NEWS: A Summer of (Eco)Restoration

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Ecosystems

August 2, 2022

By DWR News Summer 2022 is a season of ecological restoration for the Department of Water Resources (DWR).  From June...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Water use in California dips, but still short of Newsom’s goal

Courthouse News Service

Current Conditions

August 2, 2022

Ironically, residents living in the Colorado River Basin cut their water usage the least, even as lakes Powell and Mead...

THIS JUST IN … June 2022 Urban Water Conservation Update: Water use trending down

State Water Board

Current Conditions

August 2, 2022

From the State Water Resources Control Board: Statewide water use in June was 7.6% lower than in June 2020, and...

EARTH ISLAND JOURNAL: Helping Property Owners Manage Their Streams

Earth Island Journal

Planning and management

August 1, 2022

California Urban Streams Partnership shows Contra Costa County homeowners how to be stewards of their watersheds. By Jessica Hall, Earth...

DAN WALTERS: Can Newsom finally win long Delta water conflict?

Cal Matters

CommentaryDelta Conveyance Project

August 1, 2022

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is trying to succeed where his predecessors have failed, building a project to replumb the Sacramento-San...

THIS JUST IN … Public Comment Period Opens for Additional Resubmitted Groundwater Sustainability Plans with ‘Incomplete’ Determinations

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Groundwater News

August 1, 2022

From the Department of Water Resources: On January 28, 2022, the Department released eight Incomplete determinations on groundwater sustainability plans...

MONTHLY RESERVOIR REPORT for August 1

Robert Shibatani

Current Conditions

August 1, 2022

Written by hydrologist Robert Shibatani With two months left in this water year (WY), California’s federal and State water systems...

SJV WATER: Utility stops flows to closed hatchery but keeps some North Fork Kern water for itself

SJV Water

Policy and regulation

July 29, 2022

By Lois Henry, SJV Water Southern California Edison has stopped taking water out of the North Fork of the Kern...

COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE: California cements plan to tunnel out of water crisis

Courthouse News Service

Delta Conveyance Project

July 27, 2022

By Kevin Winter, Courthouse News Service Try, try and try again is the motto for the state of California for...