An old conflict plagues Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to bore a tunnel to carry water under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta – demands that more water flow into the Delta to protect wildlife habitat. By Dan Walters, Cal Matters Four-plus decades...
Commentary by Jim Wundermanm president and CEO of the Bay Area Council, and Charles Wilson, executive director and CEO of the Southern California Water Coalition Spring in California is a time for enjoying fresh wildflower blossoms and old baseball rivalries....
By Justin Fredrickson, Ag Alert Project operators recently explained unprecedented emergency plans for cold-water temperature management to support endangered salmon...
By Danny Merkley, California Farm Bureau Federation California’s farmers and ranchers are under enormous stress entering a third year of unrelenting drought. Family farms and ranches have seen their access to surface water severely curtailed. There isn’t enough water for...
By Mike Wade, California Farm Water Coalition Farms require water to grow the healthy local food supply we depend on. But despite increasing water efficiency, farmers are always the first to have supplies cut. That trend continues this year, with...
Guest commentary by Bill Bennett The situation for the endangered Delta smelt is pretty dire, to say the least. Monitoring results show that the population of this tiny, silvery fish – which only lives for one year, used to be...
