By Edward Ring, Ag Alert Practical solutions to California’s energy and water shortages will always have a better chance of...
By Senator Alvarado-Gil, Assemblyman Heath Flora, and Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria We all know it. You shouldn’t wait to close the barn door until after the horse has bolted. That’s an important lesson for Central Valley communities today. California didn’t experience...
By Ted Sommer, Cal Matters Ted Sommer is a Public Policy Institute of California-CalTrout Ecosystem fellow at the PPIC Water...
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As California’s precipitation becomes more erratic due to climate change, the state needs more tools, including more storage capacity, to make the water supply reliable. By Dan Walters, Cal Matters There’s no issue more important to California than having a...
Commentary by Mike Wade, Executive Director of the California Farm Water Coalition Water, the essence of life, is an indispensable...
As California officials craft new regulations for urban water conservation, critics who belittle the importance of these efforts are often...
Household use is a tiny fraction of California’s overall water supply, but the state wants to spend billions of dollars to make a tiny reduction in that already infinitesimal bit of water consumption. By Dan Walters, Cal Matters Stay up-to-date...
By Jon Rosenfield, PhD, SF Baykeeper science director; and Eric Buescher, SF Baykeeper managing attorney California is at the forefront...
DAN WALTERS: Rollercoaster weather shows why California needs better infrastructure for wetter years
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Written by Roger Dickinson, CivicWell Policy Director and co-author of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, and Julie Rentner, River Partners Executive Director This year was the epitome of climate-driven weather whiplash experts stress is the new norm for California. In...
By Mike Wade, Executive Director of the California Farm Water Coalition, posted at Ag Alert California’s San Joaquin Valley is...
California’s reservoirs are more full than usual thanks to last winter’s heavy rain and snow storms. Scientists believe that the...
By Norm Groot, executive director of the Monterey County Farm Bureau During atmospheric river storms that hit California in January and March, Monterey County farmland suffered extensive flooding that had not been experienced in 28 years. The flood patterns were...