AG ALERT: California reflects on SGMA 10 years later Ag Alert News November 27, 2024 187By Christine Souza, Ag Alert California water officials, local water agencies and farmers have spent the past decade preparing for...
PRESS RELEASE: Safe Yield Trial is a Go: Appellate Court declines to hear IWVGA’s challenge to trial court’s decision to hold safe yield trial Indian Wells Valley News November 15, 2024 171Press release from the Indian Wells Valley Water District and Searles Valley Minerals The Indian Wells Valley Water District and...
SJV WATER: Madera County project aims to curb groundwater pull by paying farmers to find new uses for land SJV Water News November 9, 2024 437By Jesse Vad, SJV Water Residents and advocates in the small community of Fairmead have been working for years to...
SJV WATER: Lawsuit accuses Friant Water Authority of holding secret meetings that resulted in massive fees pinned on a handful of Tulare County irrigation districts SJV Water News November 6, 2024 436By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water The legal fracas over who should pay to fix the sinking Friant-Kern Canal grew Friday...
AG ALERT: Farms face ruin as groundwater law takes its toll Ag Alert News October 23, 2024 3309By Caleb Hampton, Ag Alert Last month, on the final day of his almond harvest, Amrik Singh Basra sat outside...
NOW AVAILABLE: DWR Releases Webinar on Depletion of Interconnected Surface Water and Extends Paper Comment Period Department of Water Resources (DWR) News October 18, 2024 164From the Department of Water Resources: To help Groundwater Sustainability Agencies address the depletion of interconnected surface water (ISW) in...
SJV WATER: Cataloging San Joaquin Valley water projects is a huge and ever-changing task SJV Water News October 17, 2024 85by Monserrat Solis, California Local News Fellow, SJV Water It seems like an impossible task, cataloging all – or at...
AG ALERT: Land values plunge as groundwater law dims farm prospects Ag Alert Agency NewsNews October 16, 2024 4202By Caleb Hampton The value of farmland in parts of the San Joaquin Valley, California’s agricultural heartland, has fallen rapidly...
SJV WATER: New UC Davis clinic hopes to give small valley farmers some legal fire power to defend their groundwater stake SJV Water News October 10, 2024 479By Hannah Frances Johansson Nicole Larson is afraid for small farmers. Before enrolling as a law student at University of...
SJV WATER: State grilling prompts Tulare County groundwater agency to make changes SJV Water News October 8, 2024 8By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water The Eastern Tule Groundwater Sustainability Agency board took several actions at a recent meeting following...
SJV WATER: Madera County farmland conversion program gets underway with $10 million in state funds Maven News October 5, 2024 25By Jesse Vad, SJV Water Land owners can now officially submit proposals to Madera County to convert their ag land...
NOW AVAILABLE: DWR Releases Second and Third Papers on Depletions of Interconnected Surface Water Department of Water Resources (DWR) Agency News September 21, 2024 312From the Department of Water Resources: To help Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) address the depletion of interconnected surface water (ISW)...
SJV WATER: Ten years after the law known as SGMA changed California’s water world, what’s next? SJV Water News September 20, 2024 173By Jesse Vad, SJV Water Monday marked the 10-year anniversary of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, (SGMA) which aims to...
PRESS RELEASE: The Science Is In: Far More Water Can be Pumped Annually Than IWVGA Claims Indian Wells Valley Press Release/Other September 19, 2024 158Press release from Indian Wells Valley Water District and Searles Valley Minerals The Indian Wells Valley Water District (District) and...
DWR NEWS: Improving the lives of Californians: DWR marks 10 years of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act and progress made to protect water supplies Department of Water Resources (DWR) Agency News September 17, 2024 75Landmark law has driven significant progress to protect drinking water supplies against the impacts of climate change From the Department...