From Restore the Delta: A coalition of Tribes, environmental justice organizations, fishing groups, conservation advocates, and Delta communities successfully stopped a package of Delta trailer bills that would have had disastrous consequences for the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary. Working in...
By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water The long, circuitous path of a lawsuit against the federal government for cutting off water during the crushing 2014 drought to farms and cities that rely on supplies from the Friant-Kern and Madera canals could...
From the Department of Water Resources: Every water year is unique, with some being dry and others wet. California’s climate has always been highly variable, and as the climate changes, precipitation patterns are becoming even more unpredictable, wildly swinging from...
Press release from multiple organizations This legislative session was marred by significant deregulation and increased government handouts to the most...
By Caleb Hampton, Ag Alert Below an ashen hillside, farmer Johnnie White picked shriveled grapes off flaking vines, surveying for the third time in a decade the ravages of a wildfire on Napa Valley vineyards. Nearby, fire crews stamped out...
By Christine Souza, Ag Alert In a major regulatory shift years in the making, the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board voted last month to amend a general order and exempt agricultural operations in Northern California’s Pit River subwatershed...
