The country’s largest area designated for solar energy, Desert Center shows how sprawls of PV panels impact communities. Even supporters of the energy transition can find dealing with the developments challenging. By Wyatt Myskow, Inside Climate News This article originally...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water The powerful, and politically right-leaning Westlands Water District recently teamed up with left-leaning democratic assemblymember...
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....
by Robin Meadows In 1990, Gary Estes moved to Auburn, a town of nearly 14,000 in the Sierra Nevada foothills on the North Fork of the American River. Estes, an environmentalist, immediately joined the fight against Auburn Dam. The proposed...
Report finds that Cal Water’s investments in water efficiency have produced more sustainable per-capita demand, lower water system costs, and lower water bills for its customers Often in droughts, as customers cut back their water use, water bills rise, leading...
Tribal members harvest rice and fish on waters far from their reservations. by Alex Brown, Stateline In the 1800s, the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa joined other tribes in signing a pair of treaties with the federal...