By Jesse Vad, SJV Water The powerful, and politically right-leaning Westlands Water District recently teamed up with left-leaning democratic assemblymember...
For nearly 50 years, the agrochemical conglomerate was the sole producer of polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs in the United States. By Hillel Aron, Courthouse News Service Monsanto has agreed to pay the city of Los Angeles $35 million to settle...
From the Department of Water Resources: Water rights in California can be complicated. As a part of the Delta Conveyance Project, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) filed a petition with the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board)...
By Hannah Frances Johansson Nicole Larson is afraid for small farmers. Before enrolling as a law student at University of California, Davis, she served a term on the Turlock City Council where she was appointed to a committee that would...
By Zachary M. Young, Hilary R. Martens, Zachary H. Hoylman, and W. Payton Gardner, University of Montana This article provides an overview of the study, Drought Characterization with GPS: Insights into Groundwater and Surface-Reservoir Storage in California, published in Water Resources Research....
Latest report shows that local agencies have made great strides under SGMA, but climate extremes pose challenges From the Department of Water Resources: On the heels of the 10-year anniversary of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) last month and...