By Justin Fredrickson, environmental policy analyst for the California Farm Bureau We’re in a drought again—and a bad one—and that means a lot of attention to the way farmers and ranchers use water. Some of that attention is sympathetic, via...
By Christine Souza, Ag Alert More signs of drought and tightening water supplies have arisen, in filings with the State Water Resources Control Board. The board received a request last week from operators of the State Water Project and the...
From the California Farm Bureau Federation: Using farmland for wintertime aquifer recharge could help nearby communities replenish their groundwater supplies,...
Agriculture and M&I water users allocation reduced; 5% allocation for CVP agricultural water service contractors both north-of-Delta and south-of-Delta confirmed at 0% From the Bureau of Reclamation: Today, the Bureau of Reclamation announced an update to the initial Central Valley...
X2, OMR, Gates, Barriers, and more: Dr. Ted Sommer sorts out the hydrodynamics of the Delta At the 2021 Bay-Delta Science Conference, Dr. Ted Sommer, the Lead Scientist for the CA Department of Water Resources, gave a short course on...
By Mojtaba Sadegh, Boise State University; John Abatzoglou, University of California, Merced, and Mohammad Reza Alizadeh, McGill University The Western U.S. appears headed for another dangerous fire season, and a new study shows that even high mountain areas once considered...
