By Lois Henry, SJV Water By the time Erik Hansen had a moment to sit down in a Corcoran pizza parlor on a recent afternoon, the 5th generation farmer was tired, detached and a little defeated looking. He talked matter-of-factly...
California ended its voluntary statewide target, triggering concerns from experts that many water supplies remain depleted. Other drought measures remain...
The Golden State wants to keep conservation in focus even while relaxing some safeguards on water usage. By Sam Ribakoff, Courthouse News Service Coming out from one of California’s wettest winters on record, Governor Gavin Newsom signed an order Friday...
The water crisis in the West and the decline of the Colorado River are going to require painful changes for Southern California farms, and a lot less water. By Jim Newton, a veteran journalist, best-selling author and teacher. Posted at...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water The stand off over draining Poso Creek flood waters into a canal owned by the powerful J.G. Boswell Company continued Wednesday, despite hopes of a detente. “I think they worked it out and found a...
With the ever-changing climate and increasingly dry summers, California faces water challenges, despite this year’s bountiful snowpack. At the February...
By Gary Pitzer, US Bureau of Reclamation California’s winter storms have blasted the Sierra Nevada with a thick blanket of snow. That ample snowpack has been subsequently pelted with rain, pushing some of it downhill as runoff through ravines, canyons,...
