By Joe Mouawad, general manager of Eastern Municipal Water District, and Jim Peifer, executive director of the Regional Water Authority...
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 Director of the California Coastkeeper Alliance If your community suffered from contamination because of illegal dumping by a nearby industry,...
By Alexandra Biering, senior policy advocate for the California Farm Bureau In the past several years, the equity and effectiveness...
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 Californians and 750,000 acres of farmland. It supplies families, businesses, crops, and industries with safe and affordable water. Without modernization...
By Dayna Ghirardelli, executive director of the Sonoma County Farm Bureau Regulatory compliance is part of doing business when you...
Assembly Bill 399 could set a precedent where large agencies throughout the state can use the Legislature to thwart local...
Two water districts are attempting to leave us all with a tab of more than $200 million as they form a new partnership in Riverside. By Brigitte Browning, executive secretary-treasurer of the San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, and...
Friends of the River (FOR) and the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA), two of California’s oldest and most respected water...
Commentary by Ayman Mostafa, Ph.D., a field crops and entomology specialist and director of the Urban Agriculture Production, Small-Scale and...
Commentary by Jennifer Pierre, General Manager of the State Water Contractors, and David Guy, President of the Northern California Water Association Despite record rainfall and snowmelt this year, California is emerging from the three driest years in state history, and...
The environmental costs of ending water diversions from Mono Lake to Los Angeles would be mixed: It might help a...
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The benefits of a long-sought and controversial project to replumb the Delta and send more water south are speculative at best, argue elected leaders from Yolo and Sacramento counties. Guest commentary by Oscar Villegas, the chair of the Yolo County...