By Lois Henry, SJV Water Frustrated with the amount of water dribbling down the western reach of the Kern River,...
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 at Santa Clara University in filing a Civil Rights Complaint with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) against the State...
By Janet Byron, UC California As 2021 drew to a close, residents and community leaders in Kettleman City were getting...
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 over how it operates the Kern River got a half-and-half ruling from Kern County Superior Court Judge Gregory Pulskamp Monday...
The Kern County judge’s decision dismissed two of the three claims opposed by water agencies, though the one that could...
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 know he was inclined to drop at least one cause of action in the ongoing lawsuit brought by several public...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Required flows down the Kern River channel were lowered by the City of Bakersfield on...
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 Exceed the Actual Supply of Water by Five Times Press release from the California Water Impact Network In a proposed...
Project aims to develop new tools to allocate limited water supplies By Janet Byron Joan Didion wrote in the 1970s...
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 Wednesday that curbs the City of Bakersfield’s take and orders all rights holders to consult on how much water is...