In a recent Sacramento Bee opinion piece, David Purkey described the successful effort by Yuba County Water Agency in 2012 and 2013 to work collaboratively with stakeholders to develop the county’s regional water management plan. In the article, Purkey goes on to state that the Yuba County effort could be a successful model for regional collaboration on new groundwater management requirements in California.

The Sacramento Valley Salmon Recovery Program partners – American Rivers, California Trout, The Nature Conservancy and Northern California Water Association – have released an updated summary of the Salmon Recovery Program.

Earlier today local, state, and federal officials gathered to celebrate the coming completion of the Knights Landing Outfall Gate (KLOG) Fish Barrier project—a $2.5 million project, the first of several in the lower Sacramento Valley to ensure safe salmon passage.

Drought is hard work—there are no simple solutions…If anyone tells you there is a simple solution in the water arena, immediately assume they do not know anything about water. Typically the simple solutions are offered to accommodate one beneficial purpose at the expense of another.