Relying on water storage won’t be enough to make up for declines in future water availability under a changing climate, new study shows. By Elyse DeFranco, Desert Research Institute The Western U.S. is heavily reliant on mountain snowpacks and their...
The Klamath Water User Association, which represents ranchers in the area, argued that centuries-old contracts require irrigation responsibilities to be...
Riverside Pumping Plant Replacement Project latest in decades-long effort By Gary Pitzer, Bureau of Reclamation The fish travelling the Sacramento River between the upper Sacramento Valley and the Pacific Ocean contend with a variety of perils as they make the...
Another wet season helped improve California’s snow drought, but other parts of the western United States have not been so fortunate. By Natalie Hanson, Courthouse News Service Another winter without enough snow and rain has left much of the western...
By Ching Lee, Ag Alert For multiple years, Simon Vander Woude’s Merced County dairy farm has served as a refuge for an imperiled bird species that has increasingly looked to agricultural fields as a nesting ground. By agreeing to delay...
Hannah Frances Johansson, SJV Water The end of a two-year legal fight over who should pay, and how much, to replenish the groundwater beneath Madera County could be in sight. A motion to dismiss the lawsuit by a group of...
