AG ALERT: ‘MRI for the Earth’ probes groundwater from the air

Ag Alert

Groundwater News

May 11, 2022

By Edgar Sanchez, Ag Alert For decades, scientists have poked deep holes a few miles apart across the California landscape,...

DELTA SCIENCE UPDATE: Juvenile Chinook salmon antipredator behavior; Science Action Agenda, Review of the Delta monitoring enterprise

Maven

Delta scienceNotebook News and Features

May 11, 2022

At the April meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen highlighted research on juvenile salmon...

Introducing the Landscape Scenario Planning Tool Version 2.0

Press Release/Notice

Delta sciencePlanning and management

May 6, 2022

From the San Francisco Estuary Institute: In partnership with the Delta Stewardship Council, the San Francisco Estuary Institute has developed...

US FWS: Endangered California salmon returned to safer waters after more than a century

US Fish and Wildlife Service

Fish and wildlife

May 5, 2022

State and federal agencies join to save native salmon from drought, climate change State and federal biologists have begun moving...

FEATURE: Wetland Responses to Restoration and Management

Maven

Best of the NotebookDelta scienceEcosystems

May 5, 2022

Dr. John Durand is a research scientist at UC Davis, where he studies estuarine food webs and fishes.   He has...

COMMENTARY: Balanced approach to water needed for farms, fish

Ag Alert

CommentaryWater project operations

May 4, 2022

By Justin Fredrickson, Ag Alert Project operators recently explained unprecedented emergency plans for cold-water temperature management to support endangered salmon...

THE CONVERSATION: Western river compacts were innovative in the 1920s but couldn’t foresee today’s water challenges

The Conversation

Colorado River

May 4, 2022

By Patricia J. Rettig, Colorado State University The Western U.S. is in a water crisis, from California to Nebraska. An ongoing...

CORNELL CHRONICLE: Western municipal water restraints rise as reservoirs fall

Cornell University

Colorado River

May 4, 2022

By Blaine Friedlander, Cornell University As water restrictions tighten in Southern California in anticipation of summer, the Southwestern United States...

EOS: Assessing Water Infrastructure Investments in California

American Geophysical Union

Policy and regulation

May 4, 2022

Exploratory modeling in California’s Central Valley indicates that evaluating the costs, benefits, and risks to individual providers is necessary to...

DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: Study develops framework for forecasting contribution of snowpack to flood risk during winter storms

Desert Research Institute

Planning and management

May 3, 2022

New research advances effort to create a decision-support tool for reservoir operators and flood managers From the Desert Research Institute:...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Feds to take water from Wyoming to bolster Lake Powell

Courthouse News Service

Colorado River

May 3, 2022

Akin to robbing Peter to pay Paul, the feds say the influx of water into Lake Powell is necessary to...

CENTRAL VALLEY WATER BOARD: CV-SALTS program to focus on enforcement

Maven

AgricultureNotebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation

May 3, 2022

“You can’t just dare the board to come after you.  You have to pay your fees, and you have to...

UPDATE: Delta Stewardship Council denies appeal of Lookout Slough project

Maven

Notebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation

May 2, 2022

At the April meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council during a public hearing, the Council voted to deny the appeal...

MONTHLY RESERVOIR REPORT for May 1

Robert Shibatani

Current Conditions

May 2, 2022

The rains that bring May flowers sort of fizzled after what looked momentarily promising… Across California, federal CVP reservoir storage...

STATELINE: Climate Change is Pushing Toxic Chemicals into Drinking Wells

Stateline

Groundwater NewsWater qualityWildfires and watersheds

April 28, 2022

By Erika Bolstad, Stateline Don Myron is probably best known as the guy who survived one of the deadliest fires...