Tag: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
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Biden-Harris Administration Delivers $520 Million from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda to Revitalize Aging Water Infrastructure and Strengthen Drought Resilience
Funding will be provided to 57 projects across six regions to increase drought resilience and improve water delivery systems, advance Biden-Harris administrations’ National Climate Resilience Framework Acting Deputy Secretary of the Interior Laura Daniel-Davis today announced more than $520 million from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda to revitalize aging water delivery systems across the West. The funding will…
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Low Flows, High River Temperatures and Pollution Force Emergency Condor-Style Plan to Save Salmon Species
California Water Policies Decimate Threatened Central Valley Spring-Run Chinook Salmon California Department of Fish and Wildlife environmental scientists herd yearling spring-run Chinook salmon into a waiting net. Deer Creek, Tehama County, Oct. 10, 2023. (CDFW Photo/Peter Tira) California Water Policies Decimate Threatened Central Valley Spring-Run Chinook Salmon Today, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife…
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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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Plan for Colorado River draws on Blue Mesa, Flaming Gorge reservoirs
Historic proposal to create a conservation bank of water in Lake Powell fed by reservoirs in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico would protect the withering Powell and requires approval of eight states and the federal government Nearly two decades into a pervasive drought that has more to do with a warming climate than precipitation,…
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As New Mexico Reservoirs Hit Bottom, Worries Grow Over the Future
The state’s reservoirs have done their job to help water users survive record drought in 2018. Now they are almost totally dry, and tensions are building over the year ahead. ‘Climate change is really happening,’ one water official says. Elephant Butte Reservoir, the largest in New Mexico, photographed on Sept. 10, 2018, when it was…
