This is the first in a video series from SJV Water titled “Rooted in the Valley.” The series highlights family farmers in the San Joaquin Valley,...
Here we are nearing the end of another year. And the SJV Water team has been taking stock, reflecting, and pondering the accumulation of news and...
The Friant-Kern Canal fix is underway and on schedule to be completed before Sept. 1, 2024, according to an update at a recent Friant Water Authority...
Farmers in Madera County successfully blocked a key groundwater fee that could upend plans to bring the region’s aquifer into balance per a state mandate. A...
A new groundwater ordinance approved on Tuesday by the Kings County Board of Supervisors could put the county in the middle of a water war being...
Longtime Westlands Water District General Manager Tom Birmingham announced Wednesday that he will retire as of Dec. 31. “I am retiring with extreme pride in the...
A controversial proposed dam seems to have a new pathway forward. But how far will it get through California’s byzantine world of water rights? Nobody seems...
In the chronically overpumped San Joaquin Valley, groundwater recharge can’t happen fast enough. And researchers at Stanford University have found underground highways that could put recharge...
The math was not in Tom Birmingham’s favor. It was clear weeks before the Nov. 8 election that the board of the massive Westlands Water District...
The makeup of the Westlands Water District board will change this election – shifting power to a coalition of growers with a list of new actions,...