NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Keeping water instream: The promise and challenges of Section 1707

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Notebook News and FeaturesPlanning and management

October 15, 2026

How Section 1707 helps water-right holders protect instream flows—and why the process remains difficult Keeping water in a California stream...

FRESNOLAND: Historic return of salmon to California’s once-dry San Joaquin River is spawning toward recovery, one egg at a time

Guest Contributor

Fish and wildlife

October 15, 2026

by Marek Warszawski, Fresnoland This story was originally published by Fresnoland, a nonprofit news organization  It’s salmon squeezing time at...

DWR Releases Fall 2026 California’s Groundwater Conditions, Semi-Annual Update

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Groundwater NewsReports

October 15, 2026

From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) has released the Fall 2026 – California’s Groundwater Conditions,...

GUEST COMMENTARY: Why Newsom’s Voluntary Agreements Won’t Work, Part 1: Inadequate Resources

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CommentaryPolicy and regulation

October 15, 2026

Proposed Bay-Delta Plan update is a bad deal for California’s rivers, San Francisco Bay, and all of us who rely...

EDWARD RING: Induced demand is a prerequisite for abundance

Edward Ring

Policy and regulation

October 15, 2026

By Edward Ring, director of water and energy policy for the California Policy Center Not quite two years ago an...

DAILY DIGEST, 10/14: Dozens of California dams need repair as El Niño winter draws closer; Achieving groundwater sustainability while preparing for El Niño; Martin Miller elected as new Metropolitan board chair; The Colorado River crunch: How water scarcity could reshape housing growth across the West; and more …

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Daily Digest

October 14, 2026

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CAL MATTERS: Dozens of California dams need repair as El Niño winter draws closer

Cal Matters

Planning and management

October 14, 2026

An audit found 57 California dams in poor or unsatisfactory condition, and the 40 riskiest sit near big coastal cities.  The...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: California auditor gives damning assessment of state’s dams

Courthouse News Service

Planning and managementReports

October 14, 2026

The state has more than 50 badly degraded dams. Fixing them all would cost some $28 billion. Not fixing them...

DWR: Achieving groundwater sustainability while preparing for El Niño

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Groundwater News

October 14, 2026

By Paul Gosselin, DWR Deputy Director for Sustainable Water Management California’s weather extremes are a reminder that managing our groundwater...

DELTA COUNCIL: Tide’s End Project will complete 10-mile wetland corridor in Yolo Bypass

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Ecosystems

October 14, 2026

A proposed restoration project at the southern end of the Yolo Bypass will connect existing wetlands while supporting agriculture and...

DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: Wide-scale cropland loss has consequences for wildfire resilience in the American West, new research finds

Desert Research Institute

Wildfires and watersheds

October 14, 2026

Irrigated farmland serves as a landscape-scale buffer to wildfire, creating major tradeoffs between water-saving drought adaptation efforts and shifting wildfire...

RESEARCH ARTICLE: Colorado River drought drives unprecedented pattern of groundwater loss

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Colorado RiverResearch article

October 14, 2026

Using satellite technology, Virginia Tech geoscientists estimated groundwater depletion across the Colorado River Basin, finding recent losses greater in the...

DAILY DIGEST, 10/13: ‘A potential catastrophe’: The Delta prepares for Super El Niño; Getting under the skin of salmon science; Tahoe gets its first snow of the season; Unpacking the latest developments on the Colorado River; and more …

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Daily Digest

October 13, 2026

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VOICE OF SAN DIEGO: The phenomenon that could blunt El Niño

Voice of San Diego

Hydrology

October 13, 2026

The Pacific Decadal Oscillation could stymie the effects of El Niño — at least, let’s hope so. By Mackenzie Elmer,...

DWR: With El Niño on the horizon, DWR prepares the flood system

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Planning and management

October 13, 2026

By the Department of Water Resources: In the summer of 2022, California was in the middle of the driest three-year...