By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water Even as Kaweah and Success lakes returned to normal operations, with some releases sent into local rivers last week after recent storms, the United States Army Corps of Engineers was being grilled in Washington, D.C....
By Caleb Hampton, Ag Alert Local water managers in Tulare County may have prevented a disaster last week. On the afternoon of Thursday, Jan. 30, an announcement by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that it was set to immediately...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water The sudden announcement Thursday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that Kaweah and Success lakes would immediately begin dumping water was in response to President Trump’s Jan. 24 executive order mandating that federal officials...
The president’s executive orders on California water will help irrigate Central Valley farms. They won’t do anything to fight wildfires. By Jake Bittle, Grist “This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” While President...
Memo from the Department of Water Resources to the State Water Board: On August 22, 2024, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) withdrew its pending petitions for a water rights extension of time that were filed on December 31,...