By Robert Glennon, University of Arizona Arizona, California and Nevada have narrowly averted a regional water crisis by agreeing to...
By Luke Reid, Chico State Today Arthur Garcia, Cultural Resource Manager and Tribal Elder of the Wintu Tribe of Northern...
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: Solar is Booming in the California Desert, if Water Issues Don’t Get in the Way
Utility-scale solar farms spreading rapidly across the desert Southwest are stressing the region’s already overtaxed groundwater and communities are beginning to push back. By Wyatt Myskow, Inside Climate News This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … PUBLIC MEETING: Lower San Joaquin River Project at 11:30am on Zoom or 6:30pm in...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] In California water news this weekend … The Colorado River water deal was historic. But maps and charts show...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water California’s two prolonged droughts – along with greater surface and groundwater restrictions – are pitting farmer against farmer in some parts of the San Joaquin Valley. In the Wheeler Ridge-Maricopa Water Storage District farmers who...
By Robert Glennon, University of Arizona The Navajo Nation, the largest Native American reservation in the U.S., covers 27,000 square...
A wrap-up of posts published on Maven’s Notebook this week … Note to readers: Sign up for weekly email service...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … MEETING: Central Valley Flood Protection Board beginning at 9am. Agenda items include a legilsative update, the Delta Levee Maintenance Subventions Program, Sacramento River projects, and an update on 2023 Tulare Basin flooding. Click here...
The justices dealt a blow to the Navajo Nation in the war for water in the arid American Southwest. By...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … LEG HEARING: Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water beginning at 9am. Click here...
When Steve Neader’s rice farm flooded last winter after three years of drought, a UC Davis research team checked to see what else had come in with the water. Neader grows rice in California’s Sutter Bypass, a huge leveed channel...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water Scientists have figured out how to more accurately understand ground fluctuations in the San Joaquin...
Multi-purpose Project Will Use Up to 50,000 Acre-feet of Recycled Water for Irrigation in South Sacramento County From the California...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: Moving to address the potential for severe impacts to water users and infrastructure in certain groundwater basins that lack plans for sustainable management, the State Water Resources Control Board has proposed a tentative...