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Despite Above Average Snowpack, Fed Agency Promises Valley Farmers Only 35% of Water

The Bureau of Reclamation, which controls water allocations through the Central Valley Project, didn’t wait for the new round of storm...

Despite Above Average Snowpack, Fed Agency Promises Valley Farmers Only 35% of Water

The Bureau of Reclamation, which controls water allocations through the Central Valley Project, didn’t wait for the new round of storm...
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/ 6 days ago

Will Sinking Friant-Kern Canal and Over-Pumping Usher in State Control?

Fallout over the ever-sinking Friant-Kern Canal could affect growers throughout the Tule subbasin regardless of whether they get water from ...

/ 3 weeks ago

Newly Rebuilt Friant-Kern Canal Sinking From Overpumping: Lawsuit

Farmers in Tulare County are being allowed to continue pumping so much groundwater that it is endangering a newly constructed portion of the...

/ 4 weeks ago

NASA Satellite Images Tell the Story of California’s Growing Snowpack

â– State snowpack was 28% of normal on Jan. 1. It’s 86% of normal today. â– More storms are forming over the Pacific Ocean. â– Downtown LA h...

/ 1 month ago

Valley Growers Hope for More Rain & Snow to Boost Irrigation Supplies

â– Westlands Water District receives an initial CVP water allocation of 15%. â– Friant Division gets an initial 60% allocation. â– Reclamation off...

/ 1 month ago

State Water Project Boosts Water Allocation to 15% With More Likely to Come

â– California began its water year on a dry note, but the snowpack is improving. â– Initial SWP allocation forecast of 10% in December gets a 5%...

/ 1 month ago

Boswell Fears That Keeping Water in Kern River for Fish Will Jeopardize Its Massive Ag Holdings

The  J.G. Boswell Company fears its agricultural interests – and possibly even the city of Corcoran – could be in jeopardy if water is allow...

/ 2 months ago

California Groundwater Depletion Rates Rank With the World’s Worst

  OverviewResearchers find that the world’s most rapidly declining basins are in farm regions, especially drier areas like the San Joaq...

/ 2 months ago

Rollercoaster Weather Shows Why CA Needs More Water Storage ASAP

As California’s traditional season for rain and snow began last fall, meteorologists and hydrologists predicted that the state would probabl...

/ 2 months ago

California’s Proposed Water Conservation Rules Too Stringent and Costly, LAO Says

California’s legislative advisors last week lambasted the state’s ambitious proposal to regulate urban water conservation, calling the measu...

/ 3 months ago

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