By Lois Henry, SJV Water The latest report on agricultural land valuations in Kern County shows water security continues to...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: The State Water Resources Control Board will consider a proposed resolution to reapprove...
A wrap-up of posts published on Maven’s Notebook this week … Note to readers: Sign up for weekly email service and you will receive notification of this post on Friday mornings. Readers on daily email service can add weekly email...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … MEETING: Central Valley Flood Protection Board beginning at 9am. Agenda items include Presentation on...
Household use is a tiny fraction of California’s overall water supply, but the state wants to spend billions of dollars...
From UC Berkeley’s Rausser College of Natural Resources The 1972 Clean Water Act protects the “waters of the United States” but does not precisely define which streams and wetlands this phrase covers, leaving it to presidential administrations, regulators, and courts...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Required flows down the Kern River channel were lowered by the City of Bakersfield on...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water The main topic at the January 2024 meeting of the North Kern Water District was...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … MEETING: Delta Stewardship Council beginning at 9am. Agenda items include the 2023 Annual Report, Delta Lead Scientist’s report, and an update on the Delta Independent Science Board. Click here for the meeting notice and...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water The J.G. Boswell Company fears its agricultural interests – and possibly even the City of...
Study finds steepest drops in areas of the Northern Hemisphere reliant on snow for water. By Morgan Kelly, Dartmouth Scientific...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water The main topic at the January 2024 meeting of the North Kern Water District was the Irrigated Lands Regulatory Program Central Valley Salinity Alternative for Long Term Sustainability (CV-SALTS), discussion only. Salt and nitrate levels...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … MEETING: Delta Conservancy Board from 9am to 1pm. Agenda items include updates on grant...
Researchers found that the world’s most rapidly declining basins are in farm regions, especially drier areas like the San Joaquin...
Rapid declines are most common in aquifers under croplands in drier regions, including California, the most extensive analysis of groundwater trends so far shows. By Liz Gross, Inside Climate News This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit,...