Groundwater is a critical resource, supplying nearly 40% of the state with water to support cities and farms. With droughts increasing in severity and frequency and climate change putting stress on local communities across the state, it has become increasingly...
Some documents and agreements that govern operation of the river basin expire in 2026. By Bob Leal, Courthouse News Service The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation laid down the planning process on the development of post-2026 operational guidelines and strategies for...
Center for Watershed Sciences Director Andrew Rypel talks the importance of — and paths ahead for — California’s dams By Adam Jensen, UC Davis Institute of the Environment With the first of four Klamath River dams expected to be removed...
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 Lois Henry, SJV Water A new groundwater fee intended to create “financial equity” between farmers who pay for imported water and those who don’t has stirred anger and concerns about land valuation in the Wheeler Ridge-Maricopa Water Storage District....
