Water rights and water law Archives ~ MAVEN'S NOTEBOOK

November 5, 2025

Siskiyou County has argued it needs water ordinances in place to combat illegal cannabis grows. The plaintiffs say they have...

STATE WATER BOARD: California water rights management leaps forward with new reporting system

State Water Board

Water rights and water law

October 22, 2025

Modernized interface improves data quality and provides interactive map of all state’s water rights for the first time From the...

SJV WATER: Friant contractors ask U.S. Supreme Court to review water rights case

SJV Water

Water rights and water law

September 11, 2025

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...

SJV WATER: Kern River trial moved to 2027 as participants await state Supreme Court ruling

SJV Water

Water rights and water law

August 14, 2025

A trial over flows in the Kern River, originally set for December 8 this year, was kicked 15 months into...

PRESS RELEASE: Federal Court upholds Bureau of Reclamation’s conversion of water service contracts in Central Valley

US Department of Justice

Water rights and water law

July 23, 2025

From the Department of Justice: Last week, a judgment entered by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Judge scratches federal approval of Northern California mixed-use project

Courthouse News Service

Planning and management Water rights and water law

July 18, 2025

Environmentalists argued that the project would destroy the habitat of the exceedingly rare Butte County meadowfoam, an endangered flower. By Edvard Pettersson, Courthouse News Service A federal judge on Thursday overturned the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ approval of a...

SJV WATER: California’s highest court to hear Kern River case

SJV Water

Water rights and water law

July 17, 2025

By Lois Henry, SJV Water For the first time in more than 100 years, the Kern River is headed back...

SJV WATER: Water agency, again, seeks to have judge booted from Kern River case

SJV Water

Water rights and water law

July 3, 2025

By Lois Henry, SJV Water The Kern County Water Agency is asking the 5th District Court of Appeal to order...

SJV WATER: Boaters hold “portage protest” over low flows on upper Kern River

SJV Water

Water rights and water law

July 1, 2025

By Lois Henry, SJV Water Six rafting enthusiasts held a grueling protest Sunday to draw awareness to what they say are inadequate flows in a 16-mile stretch of the Kern River because of Southern California Edison’s diversions to its Kernville...

SJV WATER: Kern River plaintiff alleges region’s groundwater plan ignores harm to river flows

SJV Water

Water rights and water law

June 26, 2025

By Lois Henry, SJV Water In a comment letter to the state Water Resources Control Board, one of the plaintiffs...

SJV WATER: Attempt to boot judge off of Kern River case by water agency denied

SJV Water

Water rights and water law

June 16, 2025

By Lois Henry, SJV Water A move to boot Kern County Superior Court Gregory Pulskamp off the long-running Kern River...

SJV WATER: California Supreme Court gets an earful on Kern River appellate court opinion

SJV Water

Water rights and water law

June 7, 2025

By Lois Henry, SJV Water One new legal filing and a raft of letters have been sent to the California State Supreme Court alternately praising and decrying the recent 5th District Court of Appeal opinion that overturned a local court...

SJV WATER: Powerful Kern water agency wants to boot judge off of Kern River case

SJV Water

Water rights and water law

June 6, 2025

By Lois Henry, SJV Water The Kern County Water Agency filed a motion May 30 seeking to remove Kern County...

PRESS RELEASE: Coachella Valley water districts, Tribe reach water rights settlement

Press Release/Notice

Groundwater News Water rights and water law

June 5, 2025

Press release from Desert Water Agency The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, Coachella Valley Water District (CVWD) and Desert...

PRESS RELEASE: Southern California water agencies end lengthy legal dispute

Metropolitan Water District

Water rights and water law

June 3, 2025

Settlement agreement aims to bring region greater fiscal stability, water supply efficiency and reliability Press release from the Metropolitan Water District and the San Diego County Water Authority Signaling a new era of collaboration, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern...

Water rights and water law

COURTHOUSE NEWS: California county must face claims it deprived Asian residents of water

STATE WATER BOARD: California water rights management leaps forward with new reporting system

SJV WATER: Friant contractors ask U.S. Supreme Court to review water rights case

SJV WATER: Kern River trial moved to 2027 as participants await state Supreme Court ruling

PRESS RELEASE: Federal Court upholds Bureau of Reclamation’s conversion of water service contracts in Central Valley

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Judge scratches federal approval of Northern California mixed-use project

SJV WATER: California’s highest court to hear Kern River case

SJV WATER: Water agency, again, seeks to have judge booted from Kern River case

SJV WATER: Boaters hold “portage protest” over low flows on upper Kern River

SJV WATER: Kern River plaintiff alleges region’s groundwater plan ignores harm to river flows

SJV WATER: Attempt to boot judge off of Kern River case by water agency denied

SJV WATER: California Supreme Court gets an earful on Kern River appellate court opinion

SJV WATER: Powerful Kern water agency wants to boot judge off of Kern River case

PRESS RELEASE: Coachella Valley water districts, Tribe reach water rights settlement

PRESS RELEASE: Southern California water agencies end lengthy legal dispute

DAILY DIGEST, 11/17: Storminess to continue along the West Coast this week; CA’s rule book on El Niño and La Niña is broken; Fall Run Chinook salmon runs looking much better this year on the Sacramento and Klamath; Building a watershed-scale monitoring network in the Sierra Nevada; and more …