FEATURED ARTICLES

August 3, 2015

From the Department of Water Resources Sustainable Groundwater Management Program: Groundwater Sustainability Plan Draft Regulations Batch 1 Issues Webcast Recording...

Adapting to sea level rise and climate change in the San Francisco Bay Area: What can we do?

July 31, 2015

Dr. Letitia Grenier and Jeremy Lowe discuss current projects underway to address adapting the San Francisco Bay’s shoreline for sea...

Landscape-scale planning for ecological resilience in the Bay and Delta

July 30, 2015

Senior Scientist Robin Grossinger discusses the latest research working to develop tools and to understand how to build landscapes resilient...

Tidal marshes: Adapting to sea level rise, carbon sequestration

July 29, 2015

Dr. Jim Morris on the mechanisms of how tidal marshes keep pace with sea level rise, and Dr. John Callaway...

Projecting inundation in the San Francisco Bay: Sea level and tides

July 28, 2015

UC Berkeley’s Dr. Mark Stacey with the latest research on the impacts of sea level rise on the Bay Area...

Climate change and the Delta: What do we know about climate driven variability of the Bay-Delta ecosystem?

July 27, 2015

Dr. Jim Cloern briefly reviews what we know and what we don’t know about how climate change will impact the...

Water Rate Making after Capistrano Taxpayers Association v. San Juan Capistrano

July 23, 2015

Attorneys Michael Colantuono, Kelly Salt, and John Bakker discuss the decision and its implication for water conservation pricing in California With the...

Media call: State Water Board officials discuss recent enforcement actions

July 20, 2015

Earlier today, State Water Board officials held a media call to discuss the recent water right enforcement actions, and to...

Sustainable Groundwater Management Act Implementation: An overview of the basin boundary regulation

Meetings

July 20, 2015

Last Friday, the Department of Water Resources released the draft basin boundary regulations for public review and comment, the first...

Guest commentary: “Might, May, If:” Parsing the guesses, assumptions, and half-truths of the Food and Water Watch report

Guest contributors

July 17, 2015

Mike Wade with the California Farm Water Coalition refutes the recent report on retiring San Joaquin Valley farmland Guest commentary...

House passes HR 2898, Western Water and American Food Security Act; Legislators and organizations react

July 16, 2015

McClatchy DC News is reporting that the House of Representatives passed HR 2898, the Western Water and American Food Security...

Media call: Director Mark Cowin on the revised environmental documents for California Water Fix, formerly known as BDCP, more commonly known as the Delta tunnels

July 13, 2015

Today, Mark Cowin, Director of the California Department of Water Resources, held a media call with reporters to discuss the...

Media call: Tunnel opponents comment in preparation for release of recirculated BDCP / Cal Water Fix documents; comment on HR 2898