INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: Solar is Booming in the California Desert, if Water Issues Don’t Get in the Way
Utility-scale solar farms spreading rapidly across the desert Southwest are stressing the region’s already overtaxed groundwater and communities are beginning...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water California’s two prolonged droughts – along with greater surface and groundwater restrictions – are pitting farmer against farmer in some parts of the San Joaquin Valley. In the Wheeler Ridge-Maricopa Water Storage District farmers who...
By Robert Glennon, University of Arizona The Navajo Nation, the largest Native American reservation in the U.S., covers 27,000 square...
The justices dealt a blow to the Navajo Nation in the war for water in the arid American Southwest. By...
When Steve Neader’s rice farm flooded last winter after three years of drought, a UC Davis research team checked to see what else had come in with the water. Neader grows rice in California’s Sutter Bypass, a huge leveed channel...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water Scientists have figured out how to more accurately understand ground fluctuations in the San Joaquin...
Multi-purpose Project Will Use Up to 50,000 Acre-feet of Recycled Water for Irrigation in South Sacramento County From the California...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: Moving to address the potential for severe impacts to water users and infrastructure in certain groundwater basins that lack plans for sustainable management, the State Water Resources Control Board has proposed a tentative...
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From Christine Souza, Ag Alert As California experiences wild swings in climate from drought to floods, critics of the state’s...
From the Department of Conservation: California’s latest drought-flood cycle has shown the need for local and regional strategies to manage and store floodwaters in wet periods to help ensure stable water supplies during times of drought. Today, the California Department of...
10 parts per billion would improve public health protection Press release from the State Water Resources Control Board: Reaching another...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water Even as some San Joaquin Valley communities still have flood damage to fix, new drought...
From the Center for Biological Diversity: The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice today of its intent to sue the Oregon and California state transportation agencies for failing to consider fatal impacts to salmon from toxic tire pollution....