EDWARD RING: The Grand Water Bargain Edward Ring CommentaryPolicy and regulation June 26, 2025By Edward Ring, California Policy Center For the last few decades in California, the conventional wisdom has been that farmers...
GIANNINI FOUNDATION OF AG ECON: Sharing Colorado River Water: A View From Southern California Giannini Foundation Of Agricultural Economics AgricultureColorado River May 3, 2025By Daniel Crespo, Mehdi Nemati, Ariel Dinar, Zachary Frankel, and Nicholas Halberg, Giannini Foundation Of Agricultural Economics The Colorado River...
USGS releases a comprehensive look at water resources in the United States USGS Planning and management January 17, 2025New National Water Availability Assessment offers critical insights into water supply, demand and quality across the Nation. From the USGS...
KNOWABLE: Can desalination quench agriculture’s thirst? Knowable Magazine AgricultureWater supply augmentation November 25, 2024Miles away from the ocean, projects are afoot to clean up salty groundwater and use it to grow crops. Some...
COMMENTARY: Where does water wind up? You might be surprised Ag Alert AgricultureCommentary February 7, 2024Commentary by Mike Wade, Executive Director of the California Farm Water Coalition Water, the essence of life, is an indispensable...
THE CONVERSATION: What Arizona and other drought-ridden states can learn from Israel’s pioneering water strategy The Conversation Colorado RiverWater supply augmentation September 12, 2023By Gabriel Eckstein, Texas A&M University; Clive Lipchin, Tel Aviv University, and Sharon B. Megdal, University of Arizona Arizona is...
CAL MATTERS: Growers brace to give up some Colorado River water Cal Matters AgricultureColorado River January 17, 2023The Colorado River’s water transformed the Imperial Valley desert into one of California’s most productive farm regions. But now growers...
AG ALERT: Researchers turn to drones, satellites to track water use Ag Alert Agriculture October 5, 2022Like many other researchers, environmental engineering professors Erin Hestir and Joshua Viers of the University of California, Merced, are trying...
COMMENTARY: We can help farmers by retiring some parched lands Ag Alert CommentaryGroundwater News November 10, 2021By Jay Ziegler, director of policy for The Nature Conservancy, and Dan Vink, principal partner for Six-33 Solutions, for Ag...
AG ALERT: Satellites track water use to aid crop efficiency Ag Alert AgricultureGroundwater News October 27, 2021By Kevin Hecteman, Ag Alert As California weathers another drought, tools that can help farmers and ranchers maximize the water...
GUEST COMMENTARY: Our Enduring Water Supply: Are the Answers to California’s Water Problems Obvious? Robert Shibatani Climate changeCommentaryWater rights and water law October 25, 2021Written by Robert Shibatani Is there a water supply problem in California? To answer such a question, much depends...
CAL MATTERS EXPLAINER: Water is life. It’s also a battle. So what does the future hold for California? Cal Matters Planning and management August 4, 2021By Alastair Bland, Cal Matters Water plays a lead role in the state’s political theater, with Democrats and Republicans polarized,...
CA IRRIGATION INSTITUTE CONFERENCE: Urban and Agricultural Water Use in California, 1960 – 2015 Maven Notebook News and FeaturesPlanning and management March 11, 2021Water managers forecast future water demand for a variety of purposes, including planning future water purchases or building new infrastructure....
Panel discussion: “Fixing” California’s water rights system Maven Best of the NotebookNotebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulationWater rights and water law May 25, 2016Panel of prominent attorneys discusses how the state’s water rights system performed in the drought and what changes, if any,...
California Water Law Symposium: The Advancements and Challenges of Agricultural Water Use Efficiency Since 2009 Maven AgricultureBest of the NotebookNotebook News and Features April 15, 2015A panel discussion on agricultural water use and efficiency improvements made since the passage of the Water Conservation Act of...
