Water Archives : Bay Area Council

Report Highlights Urgency in Fixing California’s Broken Permitting System

Mar 5 2025

The Assembly Select Committee on Permitting Reform, chaired by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland), yesterday (March 5) released its report deta...

Good News Flows for Sites Reservoir

Feb 26 2025

With California experiencing more frequent, longer and severe droughts, the Bay Area Council has long advocated for increasing the state’s water ...

Council-Backed Reservoir Receives $205 Million Boost from Biden, Congress

Mar 20 2024

The Bay Area Council-backed Sites Reservoir project was awarded a $205.6 million grant from the federal Bureau of Reclamation’s Water Infrastruct...

Top State Water Official Briefs Council on Increasing Drought Resilience

Feb 14 2024

The Bay Area Council’s Water & Climate Resilience Committee on Monday (Feb. 12) welcomed California Deputy Secretary for Water Nancy Vogel to...

Proposed Sites Reservoir Crosses Critical Milestone

Nov 22 2023

Sites Reservoir, the proposed 1.5 million acre-foot off-stream reservoir that would be the 8th largest in California if built, took a major step fo...

New Reservoir Project Gets Accelerated behind Council’s Advocacy

Nov 8 2023

California’s ability to update, improve and modernize its critical infrastructure has too often been delayed and made more expensive by legal cha...

Playback: Can We Innovate Our Way Out of Drought

Oct 6 2023

Thank you to everyone who attended the Bay Area Council’s recent in-person forum on water sustainability aboard the Klamath, where we asked three...

Water Sustainability Forum: Can We Innovate Our Way Out of Drought?

Sep 22 2023

Friday, September 2911 a.m. to 12noonThe Klamath, Pier 9, the Embarcadero, San FranciscoRegister today>> More frequent. More severe. Drought ...

Celebrating World Water Day

Mar 22 2023

World Water Day (March 22) inspires awareness and action to promote access to clean water worldwide. This year is all about accelerating change. Cl...

Council Welcomes Order by Newsom to Increase Delta Water Deliveries

Feb 24 2023

Capturing water from atmospheric river storms and storing it for future use by people and the environment is more important than ever amid the clim...

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