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.
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Dams are full, but farmers aren’t seeing it. What gives?
Simply put: we have snow and we have water.
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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.
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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.
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WaterFix back under the microscope
California Water Fix is the infrastructure project of tunneling through the Delta.
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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.
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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.
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All eyes turn to the Feds on water infrastructure
One-hundred and ten organizations and agencies from 13 western states sent a letter to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee …
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Heavy rain provides a small bump to 55% water allocation for westside
Heavy rainfall led the Bureau of Reclamation to provide a slight raise in allocation to CVP contractors south of the Delta.