Drought

The initial 2020 State Water Project (SWP) allocation was announced Monday by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR).  DWR’s allocations are based on conservative assumptions and may change depending on rain and snow received throughout the winter. The state’s initial allocation is set intentionally low so as to guard …

The Department of Water Resources (DWR) released an Initial Study/proposed Mitigated Negative Declaration (IS/MND) for soil investigations in the Delta earlier this week and has now announced they have extended the deadline for the comment period until January 15, 2020. The proposed Delta data collection, soil samples and surveys were …

The State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) announced late last week that it has streamlined requirements for applicants seeking to divert surface water to underground storage during floods and other high flow conditions in an effort to expedite its water right permitting process. Although the changes will have no impact …

Perhaps University of California (UC), Davis Biologist Patricia Maloney and her team of researchers have found a way to harness the determination of sugar pine trees that survived the extended drought of 2012 to 2016 in the Sierra Nevada. Perhaps it’s a new version of survival of the fittest – …

Moving forward, has the game changed for farmers to keep plants plump and thriving in spite of droughts? A University of California (UC) Riverside-led team thinks they may have found one way to help plants hold onto water via a chemical discovery, which could result in thwarting the massive annual …

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced earlier this week that the statewide Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP), a multi-agency law enforcement task force managed by the California Department of Justice, has thus far this year eradicated 953,459 illegal marijuana plants from 345 grow sites across the state. The CAMP operations …