In California’s Central Valley, chronic water shortage is changing the way farmers do business.
California Dreamin’
Twenty years of wishful thinking have led the state straight into a dead end.
San Francisco Chronicle: Tough choice about California’s water future
In the grand Western tradition of fistfights down at the water hole, no fight has quite rivaled the one over the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The delta serves as a supersize water hole for more than 23 million people and several million acres of farms. Two gigantic batteries of pumps – with a combined power [...]
Last rites in salmon country?
On May 18, a federal judge relaxed protections for salmon in California. What will that mean for fishermen who are already facing a token season this year?
San Francisco Chronicle: Showdown Over “Paper Water”
For decades, California has issued rights to more water than actually exists. How much more? No one knows. But after three years of drought, farmers are having to fight each other for water.
Feinstein’s Water Bomb: California senator takes aim at Delta fish protections
After denouncing a Republican rider to waive Endangered Species Act protection for salmon and other fish in California’s Bay Delta, Sen. Dianne Feinstein wants to introduce an amendment that would essentially do the same thing. Read more here.