Zero Allocation Concerns Draw Big Crowd Audience Of 2,000 Friant Water Users Hears Drought’s Grim Status, Rallies For Flexibility Briefly heavy rain may have been falling outside but water supply curtailments were most on the minds of a concerned Tulare…
Category: State and Federal Water Issues
Disaster Looms; Billions In Losses Seen
Disaster Looms; Billions In Losses Seen Federal Fish Requirements Constrain Delta Export Pumping Economic losses in the billions of dollars are looming with the promise of a financial and social calamity along the southern San Joaquin Valley’s East Side as a…
Spring Storms Help But Not Nearly Enough
Appellate Justices Bow To Fish Agencies, Reverse Smelt Decision
Appellate Justices Bow To Fish Agencies, Reverse Smelt Decision A March 13 ruling in the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that reversed a crucial U.S. District Court decision has sided with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service…
‘Most Threatened River’ Tag Given To San Joaquin
Fresno Rally And Hearing
State Groundwater Regulation May Be Looming
State Groundwater Regulation May Be Looming Serious state efforts to regulate California’s groundwater use and management that many in irrigated agriculture have been anticipating for more than two decades now appear to be right around the corner. State agencies and…
Friant Water Authority Hosting Informational Meeting on California Drought
Friant Water Authority Hosting Informational Meeting on California Drought Drought Update U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and State Officials join East Side water leaders in a brief informational discussion of the Zero Allocation for users along the Friant-Kern and Madera canals.…
Obama Views Drought Impacts
Storms Give Valley And Sierra Welcomed Soaking, Little Relief
Storms Give Valley And Sierra Welcomed Soaking, Little Relief All the San Joaquin Valley rain and mountain snow that fell — in one small early February storm and two larger and wetter events as the month was ending — was…