Water

Celebrating World Water Day image

Celebrating World Water Day

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 image

Council Welcomes Order by Newsom to Increase Delta Water Deliveries

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...
Climate Bond Debate Heats Up image

Climate Bond Debate Heats Up

Following the Governor’s call for a climate resilience bond on the 2024 ballot, Senators Eggman and Niello on Friday introduced legislation (SB 6...
Christmas Miracle: Federal San Francisco Bay Restoration Program Gets Huge Boost image

Christmas Miracle: Federal San Francisco Bay Restoration Program Gets Huge Boost

San Francisco Bay is one of the largest and most ecologically important estuaries in the United States, but you would never know that by the pittan...
To Meet Governor’s Drought Goals, These Projects Deserve Support image

To Meet Governor’s Drought Goals, These Projects Deserve Support

By Jim Wunderman and Charley Wilson Governor Newsom recently unveiled a bold strategy for strengthening California’s drought resilience by storin...
Bay Area Council Applauds Governor’s Water Supply Strategy to Adapt to Drought, Climate Change image

Bay Area Council Applauds Governor’s Water Supply Strategy to Adapt to Drought, Climate Change

The Bay Area Council today (Aug. 11, 2022) applauded Governor Newsom’s Water Supply Strategy to strengthen the state’s resilience to increasing...
State Water Allocations Highlight Urgency to Create More H2O image

State Water Allocations Highlight Urgency to Create More H2O

As we enter the third year of our most recent drought, the federal Bureau of Reclamation this week announced dramatic reductions in water deliverie...
Council CEO Jim Wunderman to Headline Statewide Desalination Conference image

Council CEO Jim Wunderman to Headline Statewide Desalination Conference

The recent deluge of rain and snow started to refill California reservoirs and aquifers badly depleted by record drought, but it didn’t begin to ...
Council Advocacy Helps Push Two Major Water Projects Closer to the Finish Line image

Council Advocacy Helps Push Two Major Water Projects Closer to the Finish Line

Plans to build the new Sites Reservoir and expand the Pacheco Reservoir both cleared major hurdles at the California Water Commission this week (De...
Council Confronts Tough Options for Boosting Drought Resilience image

Council Confronts Tough Options for Boosting Drought Resilience

With California plunging deeper into drought, the Bay Area Council Water & Climate Resilience Committee met with Natural Resources Secretary Wa...
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