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...
By: Justin Fredrickson, a water and environmental policy analyst for the California Farm Bureau A Public Policy Institute of California...
From the Save Napa Valley Foundation: We at the Save Napa Valley Foundation (SNVF) write to share our firm belief...
By Joe Mouawad, general manager of Eastern Municipal Water District, and Jim Peifer, executive director of the Regional Water Authority Another wet winter seems likely for California, giving us another chance to recharge groundwater aquifers with captured storm runoff. But...
California has a new proposal for allocating water to enhance the environmentally fragile Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, but the state’s fundamental...
Note: The Governor vetoed this bill on October 8, 2023. His veto message is here. Commentary by Sean Bothwell, Executive...
By Alexandra Biering, senior policy advocate for the California Farm Bureau In the past several years, the equity and effectiveness of California’s water-rights system and the California State Water Resources Control Board’s ability to enforce it have come under scrutiny...
By Peter Nissen, president of Nissen Vineyard Services and president of the Napa County Farm Bureau, and Ryan Klobas, CEO...
From the Department of Water Resources: The State Water Project (SWP) moves life-sustaining water across the state for 27 million...
By Dayna Ghirardelli, executive director of the Sonoma County Farm Bureau Regulatory compliance is part of doing business when you are a farmer, but when do the mandates become so burdensome that operating a farm may not pencil out? This,...