AG ALERT: 2024 marks a decade of SGMA regulations Ag Alert Groundwater NewsPolicy and regulation March 20, 2024By Christine Souza, Ag Alert California’s landmark 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, which requires local agencies in affected basins to...
CAL MATTERS: ‘Everyone loses’: Sacramento Valley struggles to survive unprecedented water cuts Cal Matters Policy and regulation May 23, 2022Sacramento Valley growers protected for decades by their water rights are suffering for the first time during this record-breaking drought....
CAL MATTERS: 6 million Southern Californians face unprecedented order to conserve water Cal Matters Policy and regulation April 27, 2022By Rachel Becker, CalMatters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Unprecedented water restrictions are...
AG ALERT: Delta water cutbacks weigh on farmers Ag Alert AgriculturePolicy and regulation August 11, 2021By Christine Souza, Ag Alert Organic farmer Al Courchesne of Frog Hollow Farm in Brentwood walks through rows of his...
AG ALERT: State water board adopts Delta curtailments Ag Alert Policy and regulationWater rights and water law August 4, 2021By Christine Souza, Ag Alert The California State Water Resources Control Board on Tuesday unanimously adopted emergency curtailments and reporting...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: Drought Erased 25 Cubic Miles of Central Valley’s Groundwater Courthouse News Service Groundwater News May 22, 2017A recent study says California’s Central Valley – one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world – lost...
Sacto Valley water managers respond to NRDC et al lawsuit: Statements of illegal diversions and federal mismanagement are unsubstantiated, they say Sacramento River Settlement Contractors Water rights and water law November 11, 2015Sacramento Valley rice growers say they have voluntarily deferred diversions and taken other actions to reduce drought impacts on fish...
This just in … Enviro groups sue Reclamation and rice growers for mismanagement leading to demise of near-extinct salmon Conservation organizations & coalitions Water rights and water law November 10, 2015Illegal Diversion of Water Threatens to End Chinook Salmon Survival in California, they say From the NRDC, this press release:...
This just in … UC Davis: Drought costs California agriculture $1.84B and 10,100 jobs in 2015 UC Davis Agriculture August 18, 2015From the UC Davis Newsroom: The drought is tightening its grip on California agriculture, squeezing about 30 percent more workers...
This just in … Bryon Bethany Irrigation District pursues legal action to retain water rights for hundreds of local farmers, ranchers and families Byron Bethany Irrigation District Water rights and water law June 26, 2015From the Byron Bethany Irrigation District: The Byron-‐Bethany Irrigation District filed a lawsuit in Contra Costa County Superior Court today...
Dr. David Sunding and Josue Medellin-Azuara on the economics of drought Maven AgricultureNotebook News and Features October 31, 2014At the San Gabriel Valley Water Forum held at the beginning of October in Pomona, Dr. David Sunding gave a...
Drought impact study: California agriculture faces greatest water loss ever seen Maven Policy and regulation July 15, 2014From the University of California Davis: A new report from the University of California, Davis, shows that California agriculture is...
