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SJV Water is an independent, nonprofit news site dedicated to covering water in the San Joaquin Valley. Water is a complex, crucial topic for our valley and we strive to explain water topics in an engaging, understandable way.

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by Lois Henry, SJV Water
Kern County water managers will hold a full day of public meetings around the county on Thursday to explain and answer questions about the revamped Kern subbasin groundwater plan. The document lays out Kern’s groundwater situation now and how water managers plan to improve water tables and keep them stable into the future. Meetings will…
by Monserrat Solis, California Local News Fellow
Editor’s note: Monserrat Solis covers Kings County water issues for SJV Water through the California Local News Fellowship initiative. The state Water Resources Control Board announced Monday it is appealing a Kings County judge’s preliminary injunction that has forced the state to hold off on measures intended to corral excessive groundwater pumping in the region….
First their wells went dry. Then this summer’s brutal heat wave made water in emergency storage tanks so scalding hot, some valley residents had to siphon it into containers and let it cool before it could be used. “We’re very grateful to even have the tanks,” stressed Merideth Moreno, who lives near the small Tulare…
The deadline to apply for the Tule Land and Water Conservation Trust’s land fallowing program has been extended to Monday, Sept. 30.  More than $1.2 million is available to growers in the Tule subbasin, which covers the southern half of Tulare County’s flatlands, to participate in the third year of the program.  Those funds come…
Three Tulare County irrigation districts that recently found themselves in the state’s crosshairs over groundwater extractions and subsidence are scrambling to show officials they are getting on the right side of “sustainability.” The boards of the Terra Bella, Porterville and Saucelito irrigation districts each approved resolutions seeking to cut back the amount of groundwater farmers…
Residents of East Orosi played host to Governor Gavin Newsom Tuesday, who briefly stopped in the tiny community nestled against the foothills of northern Tulare County to sign three bills guaranteeing them an end to decades worth of dirty water flowing to their homes.  Newsom was flanked by Assemblymember Dr. Joaquin Arambula (D-Fresno) and state…

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