By Lois Henry, SJV Water The J.G. Boswell Company fears its agricultural interests – and possibly even the City of...
Study finds steepest drops in areas of the Northern Hemisphere reliant on snow for water. By Morgan Kelly, Dartmouth Scientific...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water The main topic at the January 2024 meeting of the North Kern Water District was the Irrigated Lands Regulatory Program Central Valley Salinity Alternative for Long Term Sustainability (CV-SALTS), discussion only. Salt and nitrate levels...
Researchers found that the world’s most rapidly declining basins are in farm regions, especially drier areas like the San Joaquin...
Rapid declines are most common in aquifers under croplands in drier regions, including California, the most extensive analysis of groundwater...
By Jon Rosenfield, PhD, SF Baykeeper science director; and Eric Buescher, SF Baykeeper managing attorney California is at the forefront of a global crisis known as the Anthropocene extinction. This rapid eradication of living diversity is not caused by meteor...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water After three years, more of the Central Valley is being folded into the state’s nitrate...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water When farmers fallowed thousands of acres during the recent drought, most didn’t expect they would...
Next phase of CV-SALTS will help thousands more households with nitrate-impacted wells receive safe drinking water From the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Board: Three years after the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board launched a novel program that...
The deadline for filing CEQA litigation against the Delta Conveyance Project closed yesterday. Two Three more lawsuits were filed, bringing...
While statewide rainfall is below average, climatologists are especially concerned about the lack of snow in California’s largest “reservoir” —...
By Gary Pitzer, Bureau of Reclamation The group of low-slung, nondescript buildings in a remote corner of San Joaquin County near Tracy are hardly noticeable and are not open to the public. Inside, scientists are cultivating a slender, silvery minnow-like...
Deadline for filing CEQA litigation ends on Monday, January 22 The Center for Biological Diversity, the County of Sacramento, the...
From the Department of Water Resources: California’s water delivery infrastructure needs modernization. The system was built in the 20th century...
Press release from Friends of the River After providing the previously undisclosed story of the Merced River secretly running dry in 2022 for a bombshell piece written by Raymond Zhong of the New York Times, Friends of the River (FOR)...