Tag Archives: drought

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 …

A sweeping plan among seven states will ensure that Colorado River water will continue to be a reliable supply of water to Southern California and the Southwest in the coming decade was approved by the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) Board of Directors on Tuesday. After nearly 20 years of drought, …

Although former Republican California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and current Democrat Governor Jerry Brown agreed on the need for a new conveyance system to transport water from the north end to the southern end of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, it will soon become an issue to be tackled by Governor-elect …

Draft decisions for groundwater basin boundary modification requests have just been announced by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) based on the modification requests submitted by local agencies as part of the implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). Forty-three requests for basin modifications that affect 59 basins …

A $9,000 check was recently presented to the Surfrider Foundation South Bay Chapter by West Basin Municipal Water District (WBMWD) Division III Director Carol W. Kwan in support of the foundation’s Teach and Test Program for high school students. This marks the 12th year that WBMWD has provide the annual …