TOP STORIES
By DWR, 3/18/22. The Department of Water Resources (DWR) has announced it must reduce the State Water Project allocation to 5 percent of requested supplies for 2022. DWR previously set the allocation at 15 percent but a historically dry January and February, with no significant storms forecast for March, requires a reduction in the allocation to conserve available water supply.
By the Sacramento Bee, 3/20/22. In the latest sign that California remains gripped by drought and unseasonably high temperatures, forecasters warned Sunday that the Sacramento Valley could see temperatures as high as 90 degrees this week.
WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
By the Sacramento Bee, 3/20/22. Officials with the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in north central Oregon have issued an emergency water conservation notice after an underground fire shut the tribes’ water treatment plant.
WATER SUPPLY & QUALITY
By ABC 10 News, 3/19/22. Officials with the San Diego County Water Authority officials say they are confident in the region's water supply despite the state's plans to reduce allocations from 15% to 5% of the amount requested.
By Noozhawk, 3/20/22. Santa Barbara Channelkeeper monitors and protects water quality in the Santa Barbara Channel and the creeks and rivers that feed it with the understanding that the health of our streams and ocean directly reflects the health of our community.
By ABC 10 New, 3/18/22. Rural residents surrounding Modesto can get the Valley Water Collaborative to test their water for a variety of contaminants for free.
CLIMATE & WEATHER
By the San Francisco Chronicle, 3/20/22. The Saturday rainstorm that passed quickly over the Bay Area came to a stop directly over Kirkwood Mountain Resort, dumping 9 inches of snow, nearly twice as much as at other Sierra resorts.
By the Los Angeles Times, 3/19/22. For decades, scientists assumed California’s Colorado Desert — which stretches from eastern San Diego County into Imperial Valley and up to Joshua Tree National Park — would withstand the effects of climate change. Today, researchers have changed their tune. Streams are disappearing, plants shriveling. Animals are desperate for nourishment with iconic bighorn sheep ever more dependent on human interventions.
CALIFORNIA WATERSHEDS
By Sonoma County Gazette, 3/19/22. This spring the River Otter Ecology Project will celebrate ten years of highly-effective work engaging the public in supporting conservation and restoration through education, research, and community science, by linking the recovery of the North American river otter in the Bay Area to the health of our watersheds and wetlands.
CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES
By the Sacramento Bee, 3/18/22. Two of California’s largest wildfire incidents in 2021 cost fire agencies more than $500 million apiece to suppress, and a third cost more than a quarter-million dollars to fight, according to new federal data.
AGENCIES, PROGRAMS, PEOPLE
By DWR, 3/18/22. DWR Begins Monitoring Vernal Pools, Oroville Dam Citizens Advisory Commission, Oroville Recreation and more...
By the Marin Independent Journal, 3/19/22. The Marin Municipal Water District has launched an effort to explore new sources of water and study how it might help the county weather future droughts. The study comes after the district and the 191,000 residents in central and southern Marin it serves faced potentially depleted reservoirs following two years of drought.
By the Palm Springs Desert Sun, 3/21/22. Three Coachella Valley water agencies are among the state's top five residential water users this winter so far, according to state data released last week amid growing concerns about serious drought.
EVENTS
By the Water Education Foundation. A one-day workshop taught by some of California's leading policy and legal experts providing a deeper understanding of California water. Fri Apr 8, 2022, 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM PDT
The California Department of Water Resources (DWR), in collaboration with the State Water Board, is hosting a series of stakeholder meetings to inform the development of an abridge Water Shortage Contingency Plan (WSCP) template as part of a comprehensive effort to assist small water systems in meeting new requirements outlined in Senate Bill 552. At this first meeting, DWR and State Water Board staff will provide an overview of the legislation requirements, review a proposed abridge WSCP template outline, and solicit participants input on the template content and function.
Start: Wed 20 Apr 2022, 2:00 PM
End: Wed 20 Apr 2022, 4:00 PM
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