Legislation – Policy

Investors Snap Up Colorado River Water Rights…

...Bet On An Increasingly Scarce Resource With the federal government poised to force Western states to change how they manage…

2 years ago

Indigenous conservation could help Canada meet land and water protection targets

Photo: The Seal River Watershed in northwest Manitoba is roughly the size of Nova Scotia, and is untouched wilderness. The…

2 years ago

New restoration and monitoring plan will help imperiled fish in Klamath Basin

Over 140 projects identified to revitalize functional ecosystems and support multiple native fish species Shortnose suckers (Koptu) are an imperiled…

2 years ago

Pathbreaking Groundwater Research by Center for Law, Energy & the Environment Team Goes National

Photo: California and other states where water is scarce have long tapped more groundwater — particularly for agriculture — than…

2 years ago

NOAA Rejects Wespac’s Proposed Fishing Rule for Hawaii Marine National Monument

Photo: NOAA has rejected Wespac’s proposed rule to allow Native Hawaiian subsistence fishermen to recoup their cost of fishing in…

2 years ago

U.S. Senate Bill aimed at aiding drought in the Klamath Basin

KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. – Oregon U.S. Senators, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley have introduced legislation to support farmers and ranchers,…

2 years ago

California Water Agencies Hoped A Deluge Would Recharge Their Aquifers. But When It Came, Some Couldn’t Use It

WESTERN WATER IN-DEPTH: January storms jump-started recharge projects in badly overdrafted San Joaquin Valley, but hurdles with state permits and…

2 years ago

LADWP Confirms Elevation of Mono Lake Is Rising, No Emergency Conditions Present

[H2O IQ editor's note: also see the immediately preceding post concerning the Mono Lake Tribe of California and its concerns…

2 years ago

Mono Lake Tribe Seeks to Assert Water Rights, Calls for Emergency Halt of Water Diversions to Los Angeles

Photo: A grove of tufa towers along the south shore of Mono Lake, California, where long-term drought, global warming and…

2 years ago

THIS JUST IN …Governor Newsom Signs Order to Build Water Resilience Amid Climate-Driven Extreme Weather

From the Office of the Governor: Governor Gavin Newsom today signed an executive order to protect the state’s water supplies…

2 years ago