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...
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...
[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...
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...
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...
