Tag: Department of Water Resources
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California could have avoided salmon season shutdown. Did we learn nothing last time?
Photo: Fishing boats docked in Bodega Bay on Mar. 3, 2023. Photo by Martin do Nascimento, CalMatters In summary The salmon population crash of 2008 felt like an anomaly in an otherwise productive fishery in California. Fifteen years later, the West Coast is right back where it started. Have we learned nothing in 15 years?…
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Will Groundwater Sustainability Plans End the Problem of Dry Drinking Water Wells?
In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, work continues on managing groundwater for long-term sustainability, as required by California’s landmark Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). In January, water users in 21 critically overdrafted basins delivered their groundwater sustainability plans to the state Department of Water Resources. In this series, we examine the 36 plans submitted…
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Farmers Hijack Community Water Access Despite Groundwater Act, Activists Say | KCET
When a fire started on the property next door to Ray Cano’s home, the neighbors used Cano’s hose and well to fight the flames. Running the pump at full throttle, they managed to control the blaze until the fire department arrived. Then, the well’s pump sputtered to a stop. Cano later called a well inspector,…
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California’s Key Step Toward Sustainable Groundwater Management
Image: logo of California’s Department of Water Resources (DWR) Critically overdrafted groundwater basins are required to submit groundwater sustainability plans to the state by January 31, 2020 that outline how the basins will reach sustainability over the next 20 years Local agencies representing 19 of the state’s most stressed groundwater basins are required to submit…
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Idaho on pace to set aquifer recharge record during 2017-18 season
Storage water is recharged this fall into New Sweden Irrigation District’s reservoir. Through the first part of December, the Idaho Department of Water Resources is on pace to recharge a record amount of water into the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer in Southern Idaho. BOISE — The Idaho Water Resource Board recharged a record amount of…
