California is adapting to increasingly intense storm patterns, largely driven by atmospheric rivers. These narrow bands of concentrated water vapor transport immense amounts of moisture from the tropics, often resulting in heavy rain or snow when they reach land. By...
Letter from the State Water Contractors: Dear Governor Newsom, Chairman Esquivel, and Members of the State Water Board: The State Water Contractors (SWC) write to express concern with a ruling by the State Water Resources Control Board’s (Water Board) administrative...
By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water Even as Kaweah and Success lakes returned to normal operations, with some releases sent into local rivers last week after recent storms, the United States Army Corps of Engineers was being grilled in Washington, D.C....
By Caleb Hampton, Ag Alert Local water managers in Tulare County may have prevented a disaster last week. On the afternoon of Thursday, Jan. 30, an announcement by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that it was set to immediately...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water The sudden announcement Thursday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that Kaweah and Success lakes would immediately begin dumping water was in response to President Trump’s Jan. 24 executive order mandating that federal officials...
