By Lois Henry, SJV Water After taking a bike ride along the Kern River recently, Bakersfield resident Jonathan Vegas was...
Press release This week, Latino community groups were joined by Monterey Waterkeeper and the Environmental Justice and Common Good Initiative...
By Janet Byron, UC California As 2021 drew to a close, residents and community leaders in Kettleman City were getting increasingly nervous. After receiving only 5 percent of their annual state water allocation and with no additional allocations on the...
Activists forced to deliver petition to US Forest Service staff on sidewalk when barred entry to headquarters office in DC...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water A motion that challenged four claims made in a lawsuit against the City of Bakersfield...
The Kern County judge’s decision dismissed two of the three claims opposed by water agencies, though the one that could have affected a preliminary injunction was unaffected. By Alan Riquelmy, Courthouse News Service An injunction protecting fish in California’s Kern...
Sierra Club and Center for Biological Diversity cite California Supreme Court, federal law, Tribal rights, and Biden policy in call...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Kern County Superior Court Judge Gregory Pulskamp let the battalion of attorneys in court Wednesday...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Required flows down the Kern River channel were lowered by the City of Bakersfield on Monday as officials have collected more data on how much water is actually needed for the river to get west...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water The J.G. Boswell Company fears its agricultural interests – and possibly even the City of...
Figures in the Agency’s New Bay-Delta Plan Update Confirm What Water Reform Advocates Have Long Maintained: California Water Rights Claims...
Project aims to develop new tools to allocate limited water supplies By Janet Byron Joan Didion wrote in the 1970s that “so much water is moved around California by so many different agencies that maybe only the movers themselves know...
Environmentalists must offer concrete examples of harm in their suit against a modular home builder over river contamination. By Alan...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Kern County Superior Court Judge Gregory Pulskamp issued a modified injunction on Kern River flows...
By Adam Riquelmy, Courthouse News Service A legal challenge was filed Wednesday in Yolo County Superior Court over one of California’s largest reservoir projects in decades. Friends of the River, the Center for Biological Diversity, the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance,...