Two water districts are attempting to leave us all with a tab of more than $200 million as they form...
Friends of the River (FOR) and the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA), two of California’s oldest and most respected water conservation organizations, along with a coalition of tribes and environmental organizations including the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, AquAlliance, California Water Impact...
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...
The environmental costs of ending water diversions from Mono Lake to Los Angeles would be mixed: It might help a shore bird habitat but would require changes that increase carbon emissions. Commentary by Jim Newton, Cal Matters Stay up-to-date with...
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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...
The water crisis in the West and the decline of the Colorado River are going to require painful changes for Southern California farms, and a lot less water. By Jim Newton, a veteran journalist, best-selling author and teacher. Posted at...
California was once home to the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River, but Tulare Lake disappeared as water...
The decision to suspend environmental regulations for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta – and then reverse it a few weeks later...
Despite reversing course last week, the February decision by Gov. Gavin Newsom and state water officials to bypass environmental rules for water storage allowed greater harm to salmon populations already besieged by drought. Native American tribal members argue that such...
Jamie Johansson, California Farm Bureau Federation Now that the recent series of Pacific storms have abated and we are in...
By Gerald Meral, director of the California Water Program at the Natural Heritage Institute Californians have suddenly turned their attention...
GUEST COMMENTARY: Amid Onslaught of Storms, State Must Get Serious About More Pumping, Water Storage
By Dave Puglia, President & CEO, Western Growers California has once again been caught flat-footed in the aftermath of another round of infrequent yet inevitable wet weather, grounded by inflexible interpretation of the 2019 biological opinions and the persistent, puzzling...