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Trump Emergency Order Triggers Water Dump From Tulare County Lakes

The sudden announcement Thursday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that Kaweah and Success lakes would immediately begin dumping water was...
Success Lake US Army Corps of Engineers

Trump Emergency Order Triggers Water Dump From Tulare County Lakes

The sudden announcement Thursday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that Kaweah and Success lakes would immediately begin dumping water was...

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California water system

California Shoots Down Trump’s Claim That US Military ‘Turned on the Water’

California water officials on Tuesday denied President Trump’s social media claim late Monday that the U.S. military acting under emer...

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Eaton Fire Bottled Water

Trump’s Conditions on LA Fire Aid Put CA Republicans in a Vise

As swaths of Southern California burn, the state’s Republican members of Congress find themselves facing a dilemma. Yue Stella Yu CalMatt...

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A fire hydrant that only has a 2.5 inch outlet, instead of the normal 4-inch outlet with higher water volume, in Palisades, Calif. on January 25, 2025. The White House on Sunday released an executive order by President Donald Trump that laid out a plan to exert the federal government’s role in California’s complex water management operations and claimed its authority to overrule state officials. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)

Trump Seeks to Assert More Control Over California’s Water

The White House on Sunday released an executive order by President Donald Trump that laid out a plan to exert the federal government’s role ...

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Tulare County Water Managers Scramble to Fend Off Pumping Sanctions

Groundwater managers and others in southern Tulare County are scrambling to comply with state mandates to try and hold off pumping sanctions...

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Trump Orders Putting ‘People Over Fish.’ Will He Succeed?

President Donald Trump lost no time Monday in advancing his agenda for California’s water supply with a “presidential action” intended to se...

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Water News: Pact Secures Federal Money for Dam Raise, Promotions at Westlands

As the federal government and the San Luis and Delta-Mendota Water Authority reached a cost-sharing agreement to raise the B.F. Sisk Dam, se...

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Are the Resnicks ‘Hoarding’ Water While LA Burns? No

Almost as soon as the unprecedented scale of the Los Angeles wildfires hit the public’s awareness, SJV Water started getting some pret...

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Return of 14,000 Acres to Tule River Tribe Aims to Conserve Diverse Habitat

A former cattle ranch in the southern Sierra Nevada foothills with proximity to the headwaters of Deer Creek is one step closer to being con...

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Kern River Flows Again, but Only Briefly, Through Bakersfield

Water is again running in the Kern River through Bakersfield, four months after it suddenly went dry at the end of August 2024, leading to a...

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