DAILY DIGEST, 2/20: Wet pattern persists; How freeing rivers can help ease flood risks and revive ecosystems; No Delta smelt in survey for a 6th year; Friant files suit against ETGSA; and more … Maven Daily Digest February 20, 2024[cmtoc_table_of_contents] Several news sources featured in the Daily Digest may limit the number of articles you can access without a...
SJV WATER: Dead end river: Fish carcasses starting to pile up in stagnant pools at the Kern River’s western end SJV Water Fish and wildlife February 17, 2024By Lois Henry, SJV Water Avid cyclist and angler Jonathan Vegas was thrilled last fall when he read that a...
SJV WATER: Newly rebuilt Friant-Kern Canal still sinking from overpumping, Tulare farmers not paying their share for the fix, lawsuit alleges SJV Water Groundwater News February 17, 2024By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water Farmers in Tulare County are being allowed to continue pumping so much groundwater that it...
PRESS RELEASE: New Analysis Finds Sites Reservoir Would Be 80 Percent Full After Recent Storms If It Were Operational Today Sites Project Authority Water project operations February 17, 20242023 and 2024 storms combined would have yielded 1.2 million acre-feet of water From the Sites JPA The Sites Project...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: Still reeling from pandemic, Sacramento delta residents eye major land, water management deals Courthouse News Service Delta Conveyance ProjectPolicy and regulation February 16, 2024California’s fertile Sacramento delta region has long been central to debates over how to best manage California’s water resources and...
PRESS RELEASE: Friant Water Authority and Arvin-Edison Water Storage District file lawsuit against the Eastern Tule Groundwater Sustainability Agency for breach of settlement agreement and interference with contract for water deliveries Friant Water Authority Groundwater News February 16, 2024Press release from the Friant Water Authority The Friant Water Authority (FWA) and the Arvin-Edison Water Storage District (AEWSD) have...
ASPEN JOURNALISM: Auction of Colorado River water nets $4.7 million Aspen Journalism Colorado River February 16, 2024Bidders paid an average of $74,600 per acre-foot By Heather Sackett, Aspen Journalism Longmont dairy farmer Jim Docheff has been...
WEEKLY WATER NEWS DIGEST for Feb. 11-16: Dual storms to renew flooding, landslide risk; CA’s wild weather year could get even weirder; Train derailment spills coal into Feather River; and more … Maven Weekly Digest February 16, 2024A wrap-up of posts published on Maven’s Notebook this week … Note to readers: Sign up for weekly email service...
DAILY DIGEST, holiday weekend edition: Dual storms to renew flooding, landslide risk; No more Delta smelt? The Delta tunnel project threatens their extinction; Taxpayer group delivers petition regarding Blue Triton to USFS; Key Colorado River negotiator says talks must shift away from status quo amid ‘crisis’; and more … Maven Daily Digest February 16, 2024
PROFILE: Rosemary Knight and Meredith Goebel: Ground(water) Breaking Science in the San Joaquin Valley NASA/JPL Groundwater News February 16, 2024By Jessica Sheaves, NASA Earth Applied Sciences writer In 2014, Rosemary Knight had access to a helicopter and an ambitious...
PRESS RELEASE: US Forest Service Chief allows company to drain water from San Bernardino National Forest. Taxpayers demand answers Press Release/Notice Water rights and water law February 16, 2024Activists forced to deliver petition to US Forest Service staff on sidewalk when barred entry to headquarters office in DC...
DAILY DIGEST, 2/15: Farmers, tribes reach ‘historic’ Klamath River deal; Judge rules to allow Blue Triton to continue taking water from San Bernardino Forest; New steelhead run record set on the Mokelumne River; Lake Mead hits 1,075 feet, where the water shortage started in the first place; and more … Maven Daily Digest February 15, 2024[cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … PUBLIC HEARING: Idaho-Maryland Mine Final Hearing beginning at 9am. The Nevada County Board of...
DAILY DIGEST, 2/14: More winter weather on the way; Seminar details “devastating” amount of acreage expected to go out of production; The city of tomorrow will run on your toilet water; Metropolitan: Fixing a budget hole; and more … Maven Daily Digest February 14, 2024[cmtoc_table_of_contents] In California water news today … Pacific storm train to bring one-two punch of wet weather and renewed flooding...
SJV WATER: World Ag Expo: Water seminar lands with a thud as speaker details “devastating” amount of acreage expected to go out of production SJV Water Groundwater News February 14, 2024By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water The sun was shining and blue skies reigned over the 57th World Ag Expo in...
SJV WATER: Water district between two counties and two subbasins forges its own groundwater sustainability path SJV Water Groundwater News February 14, 2024By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water The small Kern-Tulare Water District moved forward recently in breaking away from two other groundwater...
