By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water Water managers in two Tulare County groundwater agencies are scrambling to keep their farmers out of state clutches as much as possible, even knowing the solution will be painful. “As long as we don’t saddle...
By Robin Meadows In the late 1990s, hardly anyone had heard of the storms called atmospheric rivers. That includes Marty Ralph, founding director of Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E) and a leading expert on these relatively recently...
The Klamath River dam removal unblocked nearly 400 miles of waterways in a big win for local Native American tribes. By Matt Simons, Courthouse News Service The largest dam removal project in U.S. history has been completed on the Klamath...
With California experiencing climate-driven extremes in weather, the state is continuing to take aggressive action to protect and expand the state’s water supplies, including prioritizing groundwater recharge and infrastructure improvements and supporting vulnerable drinking water systems. Press release from the...
From the Department of Water Resources: The operators of the State Water Project and Central Valley Project, working with federal and state wildlife protection agencies, have agreed to modify fall flows for endangered Delta smelt fish species. Throughout September, the...
