Many people who live in the Fresno area say water isn’t flowing from their taps like it used to. Households using private groundwater wells are finding the water table is falling below their pump during the drought. Arthur and Orum drills new water wells for farmers and homeowners in the Fresno area. The company’s Kim Hammond
The state Senate approved legislation this asking local agencies to develop plans to manage groundwater, a supply that is largely unregulated throughout the state even amid a statewide drought. The bill is identified by the governor’s office as one of two to carry his newly released groundwater governance language. Careful reporting and monitoring of groundwater
A federal appeals court says environmental reviews were properly done on the nation’s largest farm-to-city water transfer, the latest ruling to uphold a 2003 agreement on how California agencies divide that state’s share of Colorado River water. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that federal authorities properly considered
California’s Friant Water Authority and many of its member water agencies want a federal judge to put an immediate stop to Bureau of Reclamation releases from Millerton Lake and seek other options to satisfy its legal obligation with senior water rights holders in the San Joaquin Valley. The case has been assigned to Judge Lawrence
Sen. Dianne Feinstein will try to fast-track farm-friendly drought legislation through the Senate over the objections of environmentalists, who the senator complains have done nothing to help her adapt California's aging water system to deal with climate change and the addition of millions of thirsty residents. Environmentalists "have never been helpful to me in producing good
Gov. Jerry Brown delivered an impassioned defense of his ambitious plan to drill huge tunnels through the delta east of San Francisco to move more northern water south, saying California’s economic well-being depended on it. Brown said during a state budget briefing that the huge public works project – easily, the largest in the nation’s
Officials announced Tuesday that they are temporarily waiving an endangered species protection to enable water managers to send more Northern California water south. The move comes as fishery agencies are under increasing political pressure to take advantage of late winter storms and ramp up pumping from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the center of the state's
A record-high share of Californians say the supply of water is a big problem in their part of the state, and nearly all residents say they have reduced their water use in response to the drought. These are among the key findings in a statewide survey released today by the Public Policy Institute of California.
For half a century, the Colorado River’s great dams and the 30 million people who siphon water from the reservoirs behind them have effectively killed the river at Morelos Dam, west of Yuma. Only when the Rocky Mountains have piled up and melted more snow than the dams can contain, as they did in 1998,
A federal appeals court on Thursday largely upheld a 2008 plan that called for restrictions on water deliveries from California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to protect a tiny, threatened fish. A state appellate court dropped a bomb late Thursday on the early stages of the state’s plan to divert fresh Northern California water under or around the