Drought

Working with the State Water Resources Control Board’s Office of Enforcement, the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board has reached a settlement agreement with Valley Ford property owner Stephen Kistler for water code violations and sediment discharges. Kistler will pay $579,700 for the water code violations as well as …

The Nimbus Hatchery in Rancho Cordova, Sacramento County, opened its salmon ladder on Wednesday signifying the start of the spawning season on the American River for the return of the fall run Chinook salmon. Ultimately eight state-run salmon and steelhead hatcheries will participate in the annual salmon spawning effort. Within …

Imagine H2O (IH2O), the San Francisco-based innovation accelerator, has opened applications for their second annual California Water Policy Challenge.  The challenge aims to strengthen the quality of water management by accelerating the development of water data innovations and technologies. It is a policy brief competition designed to identify policy ideas …

The California Water Data Challenge was launched last Friday by several state agencies in partnership with the White House Council of Environmental Quality as a competition to develop innovative, data-based tools to help California address its drought, now in its sixth year. The competition is also designed to help California …

A lawsuit filed in 2013 by Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians (Agua Caliente) seeking unprecedented rights to groundwater that would supersede other water users in the Coachella Valley has been challenged by Desert Water Agency (DWA) and Coachella Valley Water District (CVWD). The two water agencies presented oral arguments …

Questions have arisen regrading a 30-year practice of using wastewater from oil and gas field operations to irrigate food crops in California – primarily in Kern County. Though the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Board (CVRWQB) has said that no studies to date have shown oil wastewater-irrigated crops pose any …