Household use is a tiny fraction of California’s overall water supply, but the state wants to spend billions of dollars to make a tiny reduction in that already infinitesimal bit of water consumption. By Dan Walters, Cal Matters Stay up-to-date...
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 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 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...
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...
