Faced with a warming climate, lawmakers must update a 1992 federal law that established water and wildlife regulations for the Central Valley. Commentary by Congressman Jared Huffman and former Congressman George Miller Thirty years ago, President George H.W. Bush signed...
Written by Robert Shibatani Water rights, depending on jurisdiction, possess various levels of seeming indemnity and security, typically demonstrated through some standard of legally established priority. Water entitlements have been long-standing icons of local and regional industrial, economic, and political...
Commentary by Jim Peifer, Executive Director of the Regional Water Authority, and David Guy, President of the Northern California Water Association As another serious drought grips California, we are again confronted with hard truths. One is this: California needs more...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is trying to succeed where his predecessors have failed, building a project to replumb the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. By Dan Walters, Cal Matters Will the fifth time be the charm for California’s decades-long effort to replumb...
By Frost Pauli, a Mendocino County winegrape and pear grower and chair of the Mendocino County Farm Bureau Water Committee The Russian River, like most of California, is no stranger to low-water years. Now that 2022 is our third straight...
