Household use is a tiny fraction of California’s overall water supply, but the state wants to spend billions of dollars to make a tiny reduction in that already infinitesimal bit of water consumption. By Dan Walters, Cal Matters Stay up-to-date...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water The J.G. Boswell Company fears its agricultural interests – and possibly even the City of Corcoran – could be in jeopardy if water is allowed to remain in the Kern River for fish, according to...
Rapid declines are most common in aquifers under croplands in drier regions, including California, the most extensive analysis of groundwater trends so far shows. By Liz Gross, Inside Climate News This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit,...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water When farmers fallowed thousands of acres during the recent drought, most didn’t expect they would be flooding those lands months later. But that’s what happened during last year’s historic floods after the state adapted LandFlex,...
While statewide rainfall is below average, climatologists are especially concerned about the lack of snow in California’s largest “reservoir” — the Sierra Nevada mountain range. By Natalie Hanson, Courthouse News Service Despite a spate of recent storms, scientists say California...