Department of Water Resources

Newly released state guidelines on how to get a handle on subsidence, or land sinking, were received with mixed reactions after they were released by the Department of Water Resources last week.

The State Water Resources Control Board advance a controversial, Newsom-backed agreement in a new proposal, which qualifies as a major development in the long-running debate about delta water use.

New subsidence guidelines from the Department of Water Resources are expected to drop on San Joaquin Valley water managers any day, a prospect that has them both hopeful and worried.

Sinking land has become a sticking point as local agencies seek to advance under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act

A new map released by NASA earlier this year shows that large portions of California are sinking. The worst of it is in the San Joaquin Valley. One of the…

After five years of drought there’s so much snow in the Sierra Nevada that state water officials are preparing for a massive runoff year. But the…