By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water Fireworks were already popping between board members of a key Tulare County groundwater agency recently...
By Christine Souza, Ag Alert Due to significant economic impacts to farmers and others in the Klamath Basin, county leaders are urging water officials to provide a full water allocation to irrigators this year. In a statement, Klamath Water Users...
By Ching Lee, Ag Alert For multiple years, Simon Vander Woude’s Merced County dairy farm has served as a refuge...
State expedites water transfers to meet both long- and short-term needs From DWR News: “Working together to support local Tribal...
by Robin Meadows Water diversions can harm aquatic ecosystems, riparian habitat, and beaches fed by river sediment. But the people who use water don’t bear the cost of this ecological damage. “The public pays for it,” says Karrigan Börk, a...
Hannah Frances Johansson, SJV Water The end of a two-year legal fight over who should pay, and how much, to...
From the US EPA: Today, June 10, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published water quality screening values under the Clean...
Press release from the Bureau of Reclamation: The Bureau of Reclamation has updated its Colorado River System Consumptive Uses and Losses Report using recalculated data. The report presents recalculated estimates for calendar years 1971 to 2015 in the lower system...
California’s climate presents extreme challenges, from droughts, floods, wildfires, and mudslides. These issues are exacerbated by climate change and are...
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Court gives Sites Reservoir green light to degrade the environment Press release from Friends of the River: This week, a coalition of conservation groups, including Friends of the River (FOR), California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA), Center for Biological Diversity, California...
The Bureau of Reclamation has submitted the final Sacramento River Temperature Management Plan (SRTMP) for Water Year 2024 to the...
At the May meeting of the California Water Commission, the Commission was updated on the implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater...
For decades, irrigation runoff from Imperial Valley farms has fed the Salton Sea. As farmers cut back on water use, the inland sea has receded, impacting habitat for species that live in its marshes and nearby drainage ditches. By Caleb...