Salmon are back in the San Joaquin, but what did it cost us?
Five Chinook salmon were found having spawned in the San Joaquin River, but exactly how many jobs were lost in the process?
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Agriculture, Fresno
Fresno Madera Farm Credit issues $10.4mil cash dividend
The dividend to members constituted 50 percent of net earnings on the year.
Agriculture
Senate Bill 1 leaves California stalling while looking like “progress”
The bill would serve as a victory in mirage. Its results would be the status quo: water flowing to the Pacific Ocean and no new water infrastructure.
Agriculture
Dams are full, but farmers aren’t seeing it. What gives?
Simply put: we have snow and we have water.
Agriculture, Highlight
Reclamation raises westside water allocation to 65%
The Bureau of Reclamation revised its allocation for south-of-the-Delta Central Valley Project contractors on Wednesday, raising the allocation to 65 …
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Combating subsidence, maximizing recharge might have become easier, study finds
Researchers have found a new method that helps predict subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley and could help recharge groundwater aquifers.
Agriculture
CA Water Board summarizes 3,500 page plan in two-page letter to EPA
The Water Board’s submittal to the EPA is the culmination of a decade of hearings and studies.
Agriculture
WaterFix back under the microscope
California Water Fix is the infrastructure project of tunneling through the Delta.
Agriculture, Highlight
Senate advances Bernhardt nomination, House launches probe
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted 14-6 to advance David Bernhardt’s nomination to lead the Interior Department to a full Senate vote.
Agriculture, Highlight
Regardless of wet or dry years, a reality check on water must set in
Among the misconceptions on California’s water crisis: how the word “drought” in itself seems to take on different meanings.