Center News and Notes

Federal officials tell Colorado River basin states: if you can’t make a long-term deal on dividing river waters, you must make a series of short-term deals; hunting spreads at federal wildlife refuges; gray whales in trouble off the Pacific coast;…

Intensifying groundwater pumping is warping the earth’s surface and wreaking havoc with built infrastructure – including the canals that bring irrigation water.

On May 9, friends of the Bill Lane Center set out on an epic walk for 22 miles from Jasper Ridge to San Gregorio State Beach. The annual Stanford to the Sea Hike is a beloved Lane Center tradition.

San Francisco's Bayview-Hunter's Point community sits adjacent to a former naval base that is one of the country’s most polluted places. As a massive clean-up progresses to remove toxic contaminants from the Superfund site, a historically black…

Experts at the 2026 Water in the West conference examined the governance failures putting the American West's water future at risk. Water in the West is a joint program of the Bill Lane Center and the Stanford Woods Institute.