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By Darien Key In an August 5, 2025, published opinion from the Fifth Appellate District Court of Appeal, in Camarillo Sanitary District et al. v.…
By Jake R. Voorhees and Austn Cho On July 24, 2025, the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) released a Revised Draft Update…
By Evan Klouse and Micheline Fairbank The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) is conducting an environmental review to examine solutions to sediment-related storage losses in…
[THE SUPREME COURT'S MAJORITY OPINION IN SUMMARY AND EXCERPT] An 1868 peace treaty between the United States and the Navajo Tribe established the Navajo Reservation…
By Andrew J. Waldera After executing a settlement agreement and mitigation plan in 2015, surface water users, groundwater users, and the State of Idaho are again…
By Bridget McDonald In an opinion published on January 19, 2023, the Second District Court of Appeal in City of Oxnard v. Starr held that…
By Miles Krieger and Steve Anderson The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Bureau) released its default flow schedule for releases from Friant Dam on the San…
By Darien Key and Derek Hoffman The California Legislature recently introduced two bills, Assembly Bill 460 and Senate Bill 389, aimed at modifying administrative processes…
By Hina Gupta On February 1, 2023, the Tenth Circuit for the United States Court of Appeals barred the United States Department of the Interior’s…
By John Sittler and Jason Groves The Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) recently approved the 2023 Colorado Water Plan. The 2023 Water Plan updates and…
