Week of September 28, 2026
Sites Reservoir Sees a Path Forward with State Water Board’s Revised Water Permit. Read the Sites Project press release.
California Needs a Better Way to Pay for Water Infrastructure, by Michelle Paul, executive director of California Farm Water Coalition. Read her commentary in Comstock’s Magazine.
Governor Newsom Proclaims State of Emergency to Bolster Statewide El Nino Preparedness. Read the news release on the Governor’s Administration website.
Week of September 21, 2026
Crowfoot Stands by Healthy Rivers and Landscapes Plan. Read about it at KQED.
How Much Water and Power do Data Centers Really Use? Read about it on the Nevada Independent.
AI, Data Centers, and Water. Take a deep dive into the discussion with our latest What Matters Water TV and Podcast on the topic, with experts from Meta, Cisco, and AECOM. Check it out on YouTube or our website.
Week of September 14, 2026
San Joaquin Valley’s Unified Water Plan heads to Washington. Read about it on the Water Blueprint for the San Joaquin Valley website.
Healthy Rivers and Landscapes Program faces federal pushback. Read the Bureau of Reclamation’s letter to the State of California.
New digital tool shows where California water goes. Read UC Berkeley’s news story on the COEQWAL tool.
Week of September 7, 2026
Tribal Water Rights Bills on Governor’s Desk for Signature. Read about AB 1881 and AB 2218 on CalMatters.
Sites Reservoir Draft Permit Released for Comment. On the California State Water Board website and Sites Project Authority website.
Why California’s Next El Niño Won’t End the State’s Water Challenges. On East Bay Times.
Week of August 31, 2026
California Water Plan 2028 Moves Forward. On the California Department of Water Resources website.
LADWP Expands Local Water Supplies. On CBS-TV Channel 2 Los Angeles.
Where Should AI Data Centers Go? By Laurel M. Shugart for Harvard Magazine.
Week of August 24, 2026
Don’t Drain the Colorado River. Create Water Instead. By Jim Madaffer, op-ed for The Washington Post
- Watch or listen to our latest podcast on The Colorado River Reckoning
California Moves Closer to Rewriting the Rules of the Delta by Camille von Kaenel for POLITICO
State Legislature Greenlights McNerney’s Plan to Protect CA’s Water, Office of Senator Jerry McNerney Press Office