By Paul Gosselin, Deputy Director, Sustainable Groundwater Management, California Department of Water Resources California’s groundwater basins are a critical part of...
By Chris Scheuring, California Farm Bureau Federation Wendell Berry famously said that eating is an agricultural act. That makes all of us into farmers, and nowhere is that more true than in water terms. For farming is irreducibly the process...
By Jay Ziegler, director of policy for The Nature Conservancy, and Dan Vink, principal partner for Six-33 Solutions, for Ag Alert We are all celebrating a rare atmospheric river storm event that recently hit a temporary pause button on California’s...
Commentary written by San Joaquin County Supervisors Chuck Winn and Kathy Miller Last month, the State Water Resources Control Board (SCWRB) held a public hearing on the pending water-right application of San Joaquin County for a permit to appropriate water...
By Jeffrey P. Sutton, general manager of the Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority California is in a dire situation. Most of our state’s major reservoirs are precariously close to being effectively empty. We are less than two months away from the new...
Guest Commentary by Dan Ray, in response to yesterday’s guest commentary on the Lookout Slough restoration project: Outdoor recreation is among the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta’s pleasures. Leisure time spent there can reward recreationists with not just a stringer of...