On March 31, 2026, the WSWC signed onto a letter of support to urge continued bipartisan support for the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) work with the OpenET Consortium and to request $5 million of funding within the USGS Water Availability and Use Science Program for...
On March 16, a coalition of water managers, utilities, states, local governments, and water associations–including WSWC, and the Interstate Council on Water Policy (ICWP)–sent a letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committee leadership, requesting adequate...
On February 17, the WSWC submitted comments on the proposed rule, “Updating the Water Quality Certification Regulations,” urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to respect state primacy and cooperative federalism in implementing §401 of the Clean Water Act...
On January 5, WSWC submitted a comment on the proposed rule updating the definition of Waters of the United States (WOTUS)(90 FR 52498). WSWC expressed appreciation for the nuanced questions included in the preamble, emphasizing the importance of states’ perspectives...
On October 8, the WSWC sent a letter congratulating the Army Corps of Engineers and Sonoma Water on the successful completion of a pilot project, integrating Forecast-Information Reservoir Operations (FIRO) into an updated Water Control Manual for Coyote Valley Dam...
On July 7, 2025, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established a public docket (Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2025-0272) on Implementation Challenges Associated with Clean Water Act (CWA) §401. The docket initiated a series of stakeholder listening sessions and...