By Elizabeth Warmerdam, Courthouse News Service The city of Riverside is fighting California’s order to cut its water use by 24 percent, saying it has a four-year supply of groundwater and does not import water from elsewhere. Riverside sued the...
This past year, invasive weeds in the Delta were likely the worst it’s ever been, with the low flows due to the drought and lack of cold, freezing temperatures allowing the invasive water hyacinth to proliferate and choke much of...
The interagency committee charged with implementation of the Delta Plan endorses a list of high priority science actions for the Delta As implementation of the first Delta Plan enters its third year, the Delta Plan Interagency Implementation Committee held the...
By Rebekah Hearn, Courthouse News Service Imperial County and the Imperial Irrigation District agreed to settle a long-running dispute over a water transfer deal and its impacts on California’s vanishing Salton Sea. A three-judge panel with the Third Appellate District...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: Today the State Water Resources Control Board approved a proposal from riparian water right holders in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to voluntarily cut back water use in exchange for assurances they would...