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,...
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...
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...