By Lois Henry, SJV Water A preliminary injunction that could cut water being taken out of the Kern River if those diversions are harmful to fish will be taken up Friday, October 13 in a Kern County courtroom. The request...
by Rachel Becker, CalMatters Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters today for nonprofit news in your inbox. With the Bay-Delta watershed in the throes of an ecological crisis, California’s water regulators...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] Yesterday, the State Water Board released its release of its draft staff report and Substitute Environmental Document for the...
This periodically recurring atmospheric phenomenon in recent years has become just too unreliable to count on. By Robert Krier, Voice of San Diego El Niño, once feared and nearly revered, has lost cachet. It poses the threat of massive, damaging...
By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water A fast-acting recharge project in a creek bed near Lindsay is scheduled to break ground in December, one of three such projects underway in the East Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability Agency. Lindmore Irrigation District’s Lewis Creek...
By Christine Souza, California Farm Bureau Federation Farmers in counties along the California-Oregon border have reported millions of dollars of losses from a renewed torrent of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets feeding on rangeland and irrigated crops this season. “The problem...