1+ day, 2+ min ago   (244+ words) From the State Water Resources Control Board: The State Water Resources Control Board issued a water quality certification for the proposed Sites Reservoir Project in Northern California, satisfying one of the major requirements for construction of a 1.5 million-acre-foot water storage…...

1+ day, 3+ min ago   (1049+ words) By Eileen Mamaghani, Cronkite News Are the data centers responsible for the water shortage? For now, researchers say no – though details on exactly how much water each facility uses remain hard to pin down. “While I don’t think that data…...

1+ day, 2+ min ago   (213+ words) From the California Natural Resources Agency: Clear Lake sits at the heart of the ancestral homelands of Pomo and Lake Miwok peoples, where generations of leadership and Traditional Ecological Knowledge have stewarded the watershed since time immemorial. Since the disruption…...

4+ day, 36+ min ago   (814+ words) Battered by early gold mining and diminished by logging and diversions,the lower section of Sugar Creek often ran dry in summer. The tributary of the Scott River in Northern California’s Klamath Basin once supported coho salmon—but as it…...

4+ day, 16+ min ago   (500+ words) By Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy at the California Water Policy Center Anyone who hasn’t spent a lifetime in this business will quickly realize that this plan is huge and hard to follow. The “plan” is a…...

4+ day, 16+ min ago   (209+ words) From the San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District: Just months after reconnecting Anza Creek to the Santa Ana River, San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District (San Bernardino Valley) has documented adult Santa Ana sucker and hundreds of newly hatched juvenile…...

4+ day, 15+ min ago   (221+ words) By Lauren Fimbres Wood, Scripps Institution of Oceanography El Niño is defined by the persistence of warm water in the Pacific Ocean at the equator. This warm water has impacts on global temperature, weather systems and marine life. This El…...

4+ day, 15+ min ago   (233+ words) From the California Farm Water Coalition: The California Farm Water Coalition welcomes the release of the Unified Water Plan for the San Joaquin Valley, a congressionally authorized report that gives federal, state, and local leaders a single roadmap for water…...

5+ day, 18+ min ago   (292+ words) The centerpiece of the program is a weir in the Lower Trinity River on the Hoopa Valley Reservation that temporarily contains fish for both scientific examination and selective tribal harvest. The weir replaces two other weirs that the Tribe and…...

5+ day, 18+ min ago   (857+ words) In July, the Trump administration relegated endangered leatherback turtles, sea lions and whales to mere collateral damage in its race to profit from the oceans. Now, fisheries science is in the government’s crosshairs. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)…...