Water Bond Efforts Still Continuing Legislators are beginning August by going to back to work after a summer recess with some sort of decision likely by the middle of the month on whether or not a revised comprehensive infrastructure water…
Water Shortage Losses Mount, Hit $2.2 Billion UC Davis Study Lists 17,100 Job Losses California Department of Food and Agriculture and the University of California, Davis Center for Watershed Sciences provides a glimpse of the consequences of water supply shortages…
TULARE COUNTY USDA Grants $4.1 Million For Drought Projects Eleven Tulare County communities will share in $4.1 million in emergency drought water assistance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Visalia Times-Delta reported that funds will be used in a…
Hopes Fade For Strong El Niño Year El Niño conditions, the much hyped and hoped-for salvation that might end or at least dampen California’s drought, could turn out to be as fickle as most Golden State storm events have proven…
Transfer Injunction Nixed A U.S. District Court judge has turned down an effort by two nonprofit organizations to block transfers of Northern California water for irrigation uses in the San Joaquin Valley. A preliminary injunction had been sought by AquAlliance…
Frustration At ‘Ground Zero’ Still Without Water, Friant Leaders Air Dissatisfaction With USBR Management Frustration over U.S. Bureau of Reclamation management that is resulting in no Central Valley Project water deliveries within the parched Friant Division is mounting among aggravated…
Low Precipitation Records Spell Out Drought Across Valley When California’s 2013-14 precipitation year came to an unlamented, hot, sunny conclusion June 30, the records left behind spelled out drought in all sorts of discouraging ways. Among those is the natural…
Low Flows Are Rule In Canals None of it is from this year’s Central Valley Project supply but there is water flowing down the Friant-Kern and Madera canals – just not much. On June 27, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation…
Water Bond Discussions, Decisions Are At The Wire The state’s ballot measure clock has officially run out on framing a new and different California water bond but just like teams in the hotly contested World Cup state Legislators are in…
AROUND FRIANT AND CALIFORNIA ARVIN-EDISON WATER STORAGE DISTRICT Water Efficiency Grant Awarded Arvin-Edison Water Storage District is one of eight California water agencies to receive a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation agricultural water conservation and efficiency grant. Reclamation announced in early…