Water Tax season reigns in California as solutions are ignored
Sacramento’s pitch to enact taxes for “clean drinking water for disadvantaged communities” is an old dog with new tricks.
Agriculture
Agriculture, Highlight
Sierra snowpack nearly double the average, very dense
The final survey of Sierra Nevada snowpack for 2019 shows cold and dense snowpack, allowing for runoff to feed into waterways into late summer
Agriculture
Farmers struggling to meet labor needs, survey says
Farmers in the Golden State are reporting a continued struggle in hiring agricultural workers, a survey conducted by UC Davis …
Agriculture
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?
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 …
Agriculture
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.