From Restore the Delta: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a decision accepting for investigation a civil rights complaint...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water The Center for Biological Diversity trumpeted a court ruling Monday that denied an appeal by...
The contract sought would have provided the district with permanent access to over one million acre-feet of water for agricultural purposes. By Alanna Madden, Courthouse News Service A California appeals court Monday ruled against a major U.S. agricultural water supplier...
By MacKenzie Elmer, Voice of San Diego Tensions seem to be cooling slightly between the San Diego County Water Authority...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Farmers in an agricultural water district northwest of Bakersfield may have South Fork Kern River...
Press release from Yolo County: Today, Yolo County has taken the necessary step of filing a lawsuit against the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) in connection with certain undisclosed aspects of the Yolo Bypass Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Fish...
From the Western Environmental Law Center, Friends of the Shasta River, and the Environmental Protection Information Center: Late yesterday, the...
The environmental costs of ending water diversions from Mono Lake to Los Angeles would be mixed: It might help a...
By Merrill Balassone, California Courts Newsroom He’s been called a “water renaissance man.” Justice Ronald Robie has dived into the issue from every corner of California government—as a Legislative consultant writing key water policy, as director of the state Department...
From the Center for Biological Diversity: The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice today of its intent to...
By Rachel Becker, CalMatters When ranchers violated an emergency order to stop pumping water from the drought-plagued Shasta River last...
Written by Robin Meadows It sounds like such a simple fix for California’s groundwater woes. In phenomenally wet years like this one, when reservoirs are so full water is still being released to make room for snowmelt, just use some...
A Ninth Circuit panel ruled against the Klamath Irrigation District in its attempt to move a dispute over the allocation...
By Alistair Bland, CalMatters As trickling snowmelt in the Sierra Nevada slowly raises Mono Lake — famed for its bird...
PG&E can’t demolish two dams on the Eel River fast enough for Chinook salmon and steelhead trout. By Eric Burkett, Courthouse News Service Although they’re destined to be decommissioned, two dams on Northern California’s Eel River owned by utility giant...