By Harrison Tasoff, UC Santa Barbara Current Having a seat at the table, and voices heard, makes a world of...
In March 2023, six basins were deemed by the Department of Water Resources to have inadequate groundwater sustainability plans, prompting...
By Anna V. Smith, High Country News, and Umar Farooq and Mark Olalde, ProPublica This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. It is republished with permission. Sign...
By Robert Glennon, University of Arizona Arizona, California and Nevada have narrowly averted a regional water crisis by agreeing to...
By Luke Reid, Chico State Today Arthur Garcia, Cultural Resource Manager and Tribal Elder of the Wintu Tribe of Northern...
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: Solar is Booming in the California Desert, if Water Issues Don’t Get in the Way
Utility-scale solar farms spreading rapidly across the desert Southwest are stressing the region’s already overtaxed groundwater and communities are beginning to push back. By Wyatt Myskow, Inside Climate News This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water California’s two prolonged droughts – along with greater surface and groundwater restrictions – are pitting...
By Robert Glennon, University of Arizona The Navajo Nation, the largest Native American reservation in the U.S., covers 27,000 square...
The justices dealt a blow to the Navajo Nation in the war for water in the arid American Southwest. By Kelsey Reichmann, Courthouse News Service The Supreme Court absolved the federal government on Thursday of its responsibility to provide the...
When Steve Neader’s rice farm flooded last winter after three years of drought, a UC Davis research team checked to...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water Scientists have figured out how to more accurately understand ground fluctuations in the San Joaquin...
Multi-purpose Project Will Use Up to 50,000 Acre-feet of Recycled Water for Irrigation in South Sacramento County From the California Water Commission: The California Water Commission on Wednesday awarded the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District (Regional San) $277.5 million to...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: Moving to address the potential for severe impacts to water users and infrastructure...
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From Christine Souza, Ag Alert As California experiences wild swings in climate from drought to floods, critics of the state’s water rights system seek to overhaul rules that date back to California’s founding in 1850. Three water rights bills are...