Drought

As directed by California Water Code, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) is required to update the California Water Plan every five years. The California Water Plan is the state’s comprehensive strategic plan for sustainably managing and developing water resources. When last updated in 2013, California was in the midst …

A study by the Sierra Institute for Community and Environment to evaluate the success of grants for watershed coordinators — provided between 2000 and 2015 by the California Department of Conservation – to facilitate collaborative efforts to improve and sustain the health of California’s watersheds has been effective.  Preliminary findings …

Approximately 1.5 billion gallons of clean drinking will be forthcoming annually to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) thanks to Lockheed Martin Corporation and an historic settlement agreement between the two businesses to expand Lockheed Martin’s ongoing groundwater cleanup efforts in the North Hollywood and Burbank areas …

At least one California farm has been identified as a source of the recent multi-state outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 from romaine lettuce. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention warned the American public of the outbreak just before Thanksgiving and …

A controversial plan designed to restore water flows through the Lower San Joaquin River and its tributaries—the Stanislaus, Tuolumne and Merced rivers—was approved by the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) on Wednesday after a nine-year process whereby the SWRCB studied and analyzed options, and conducted one of the most …

UCLA Scientist Dr. Bin Guan is the Department of Water Resources (DWR) 2018 Climate Science Service Award honoree for his tool that identifies atmospheric rivers in weather models. Dr. Guan is employed by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) at the Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and …