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31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
If next year is dry in California, modeling from the Bureau of Reclamation (linked here, dated July 6, 2021) shows that Shasta Reservoir would store nearly 750,000 acre feet less water in April 2022 [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
On January 31, the Trump Administration is scheduled to release its new proposal for the operations of the federal Central Valley Project and State Water Project under the Endangered Species Act (known as a biological assessment). [read post]
25 Apr 2023, 2:11 pm
Delta Tunnel Project Would Not Have Increased Water Supply in 2023 [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
Updated water supply allocations announced last week would still drain upstream reservoirs in order to deliver 4.5 million acre feet of water to th [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
California’s ongoing drought – or more accurately, our new normal in light of the reality of climate change – demonstrates that California’s water system is effectively bankrupt and broken, the result of having promised far more water ( [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
The past weeks following our recent large storms have been awash in misinformation and hypocrisy about operating and permitting water infrastructure in California. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
It’s been a bad several months for the Trump Administration’s efforts to weaken and eliminate protections for Endangered Species in California’s Bay-Delta watershed. [read post]
3 May 2023, 1:14 pm
While it may not be an outlier, the absurdity of the Triangle T Water District is a great example of why people say that in California, water flows uphill towards money. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
Did you know that the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission ("SFPUC") has been working with the Trump Administration to try to stop the State of California’s efforts to restore the health of the Tuolumne River? [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
In recent weeks, agribusinesses and water districts that support the Trump Administration’s efforts to gut protections for salmon and other endangered species in California’s Bay-Delta have ramped up their claims that “new” science shows that the Trump Administration is right to weaken protection [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
The Bureau of Reclamation and Department of Water Resources plan to allocate approximately 5 million acre feet of water this year – as long as California allows them to effectively drain the two largest reservoirs in the state, potentially killing most or nearly all the endangered winter-run Chin [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
The Biden Administration has an opportunity later this year to begin the process of reforming one of the most unreasonable water contracts in California: the San Joaquin River Exchange Contract. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
After spending the past several months reviewing the Bureau of Reclamation’s biological assessment (BA) for the Trump Administration’s rewrite of the 2008 and 2009 biological opinions protecting Delta Smelt and salmon in the Bay-Delta watershed, [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
The current drought is highlighting many ways in which California’s water rights system is inequitable and poorly managed, but it doesn’t have to be that way. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
On October 1, the Bureau of Reclamation formally began the multi-year process to replace the Trump Administration’s blatantly unlawful biological opinions for the operation of the State Water Project and federal Central Valley Project in California’s Bay-Delta watershed by requesting what is know [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
Why is the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) collaborating with the Trump Administration to weaken protections for salmon and other endangered species in the Bay-Delta, even as the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has strongly opposed these rollbacks, and the State [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
After 10 years and multiple rounds of public hearings, the State Water Resources Control Board announced yesterday that it would postpone voting on whether to adopt new flow and water quality standards for the lower San Joaquin River and the Stanislaus, Tuolumne, and Merced rivers. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
While the California Department of Water Resources’ initial water supply allocation for the State Water Project is ostensibly only 5%, this allocation is a lot more water than it initially appears (more than 1.4 million acre feet of water) – and almost certainly more water than DWR can sustainabl [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
For several years, state and federal agencies, local water districts, and a few conservation groups have participated in negotiations regarding potential voluntary settlements on Delta flows. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
When was the last time that you heard a water district in California complaining that in the future, they will have too much water supply? [read post]
