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: Tulare County land trust embarks on projects to protect groundwater and farming SJV Water Groundwater News November 30, 2023By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water A unique land trust in southwestern Tulare County that aims to preserve farming by strategically...
SJV WATER: Is the San Joaquin Valley ready for its post SGMA future? Not…quite…yet SJV Water Groundwater News September 27, 2023By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water In less than 20 years’ time, the San Joaquin Valley could become a patchwork of...
THE CENTER SQUARE: California Senator introduces voluntary agricultural land repurposing bill The Center Square AgriculturePolicy and regulation June 30, 2023By Tom Joyce, The Center Square U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, introduced a bill that he hopes will bolster water...
PRESS RELEASE: California Awards $35 Million to Four Regions to Improve Groundwater Sustainability Department of Conservation Groundwater News June 20, 2023From the Department of Conservation: California’s latest drought-flood cycle has shown the need for local and regional strategies to manage and...
SJV WATER: It may be a record wet year but the state is still dolling out millions to prep for California’s next drought SJV Water Planning and managementPolicy and regulation June 16, 2023By Jesse Vad, SJV Water Even as some San Joaquin Valley communities still have flood damage to fix, new drought...
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS: In California’s Central Valley, the Plan to Build More Solar Faces a Familiar Constraint: The Need for More Power Lines Inside Climate News Groundwater News March 26, 2023The state could embrace “policy synergy” to deploy solar in areas transitioning out of agriculture, but the transmission lines must...
CA WATER COMMISSION: The Multibenefit Land Repurposing Program: Envisioning the social, economic, and environmental possibilities of fallowed lands Maven Groundwater NewsNotebook News and Features March 2, 2023At the January meeting of the California Water Commission, Keali’i Bright, Assistant Director of the Department of Conservation’s Division of...
AG ALERT: Alternatives sought for farm fallowing amid dust worries Ag Alert AgricultureGroundwater News August 3, 2022By Christine Souza, Ag Alert As local groundwater sustainability agencies bring groundwater basins into balance under the Sustainable Groundwater Management...
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...
