Conservation

The San Diego County Water Authority has activated its Level 1 – Voluntary Conservation of its Water Shortage Contingency Plan. The agency’s 36-member Board of Directors voted unanimously to activate the regional drought response plan for the third time this century. While the San Diego region continues to have long-term …

The Bureau of Reclamation announced the completion of a project to help boost the fall-run Chinook salmon population below Folsom Dam on the lower American River at Ancil Hoffman Park in Carmichael.  Workers created spawning habitat by adding more than 15,000 cubic yards of clean gravel into the river channel. “The …

Eastern Municipal Water District (EMWD) customers have continued their longstanding commitment to being statewide examples of water use efficiency. EMWD customers have embraced a culture of efficient water-use habits and have reduced per-capita use by approximately 41 percent in the past two decades. Those numbers have continued to get even …

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) have announced a joint effort at the Feather River Fish Hatchery in Butte County to aid in offsetting impacts to spring-run and fall-run Chinook salmon resulting from this year’s extreme drought conditions. Under this …

Chinook salmon, steelhead and rainbow trout in the Stanislaus River will have a better time spawning thanks to the Bureau of Reclamation’s Goodwin Canyon Salmonid Spawning Gravel Placement Project. In 2020, Reclamation added spawning gravel to the restoration site at river mile 58, about 30 miles northeast of Modesto. New …

The State Water Resources Control Board recently released the first statewide conservation numbers after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order asking Californians to reduce water use by 15%. Statewide, residents cut water use by just 1.8 percent in July compared to the same time the previous year. However, the …