Placing solar panels over existing federal canals would create renewable power and prevent valuable water from evaporating at the same time, the groups said. By Alexandra Jones, Courthouse News Service Making the push for an unprecedented investment in renewable energy,...
Press release from Yolo County: Today, Yolo County has taken the necessary step of filing a lawsuit against the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) in connection with certain undisclosed aspects of the Yolo Bypass Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Fish...
By Hiba Baroud, Vanderbilt University Heavy rainfall in the Northeast on June 9-11, 2023, generated widespread flooding, particularly in New York’s Hudson Valley and in Vermont. One major concern was the Wrightsville Dam, built in 1935 on the Winooski River...
By Robin Meadows As a New York Times columnist once quipped, “California’s water system might have been invented by a Soviet bureaucrat on an LSD trip.” The system was engineered in the 1900s to capture winter rain and spring snowmelt...
By Kenneth Schrupp | The Center Square The California Assembly Committee on Water, Parks, and Wildlife today passed a bill out of committee that would empower the State Water Board to chip away at historic water rights and significantly reduce...