Tag Archives: featured

Gov Gavin Newsom and threats of suing President Trump are endangering the California Water War agreement.  This provisional agreement, set up by Newsom’s predecessor, resolved a more than ten year-old controversy over how much water should be left in the state’s major rivers to bolster the endangered fish populations. This …

Brenda Wren Burman, the 23rd Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, has more than 25 years of working on Western Water Issues and is the first female commissioner. Burman employs 5,500 people who are charged with the task of overseeing water resource management as it relates to water rerouting, water …

In the last 50 years, Californians have invested heavily to create one of the largest and most unified water infrastructure systems in the world, carrying water all over the state, manage floods, and store water. Despite this fantastic achievement, most of the water still primarily comes from groundwater and snowpack. …

Earlier this month the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) presented its Huell Howser Best in Blue Award to the Kings River Conservation District (KRCD) for its Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) Campaigns for the McMullin Area, North Fork Kings and South Fork Kings. KRCD utilized core messaging, design elements and …

The annual conference of the Colorado River Water Users Association held on December 11 – 13 saw the completion of Upper and Lower basin states Drought Contingency Plans(DCP). A very different message was delivered to nearly every native American tribe, environmental groups, municipal water agencies, and irrigation districts, by the U.S. Bureau of …

The Bureau of Reclamation proposes to execute 15 Central Valley Project interim renewal water service contracts for two-year terms to begin March 1, 2020. The existing interim renewal water service contracts will expire on Feb. 29, 2020. This announcement opens the public comment period. Public comments are due by Feb. …