Virtual Water Summit – May 25

April 20, 2021 • by Lois Henry

The Water Association of Kern County’s annual Water Summit is virtual this year but will still pack a punch of who’s who in the water world.

Conservation • Drinking Water • Drought • Groundwater

Students find saving water “elementary”

March 16, 2021 • by Lois Henry

When a region’s groundwater is critically depleted and its dirt as hard as a frying pan, how do you refill the aquifer? Ask a fifth grader. Actually, ask the fifth and sixth grade combination class at Bakersfield’s Munsey Elementary School taught by Barbara Elrod. Elrod’s students discovered a pretty cool way to both conserve water…

Conservation • Groundwater

New land trust focused on groundwater aims to give farmers options

December 8, 2020 • by Lois Henry

Southern Tulare County farmers inching toward a cliff of groundwater restrictions that could dry up tens of thousands of acres have joined with conservationists to potentially soften their own landing and help improve wildlife habitat at the same time. At least that’s the goal of the newly formed Tule Basin and Water Conservation Trust. “Land…

Conservation • Groundwater • Water Markets

“Madness and arrogance” blamed for one lawsuit against desert groundwater agency

September 30, 2020 • by Lois Henry

Two lawsuits accusing the Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Authority of ramming through a plan that ignores water rights and, according to one plaintiff, is intended to “destroy agriculture” were filed this week. At issue is a controversial $2,000-per-acre-foot fee approved by the authority last month that would be charged to certain groundwater users over a…

Conservation • Groundwater • Water Markets

Evaporation adds up. How much? Google it – someday

September 15, 2020 • by Lois Henry

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Conservation • Drinking Water • Federal System • Personalities

With Trump comes a lot of speculation

February 18, 2020 • by Lois Henry

Will President Donald Trump give his signatory flourish to the new controversial federal plan for operations in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta when he visits Bakersfield on Wednesday? Will he announce full funding to fix the sagging Friant-Kern Canal? Or will he do a 180 and announce some entirely new policy on oil extraction or endangered…

Conservation • Uncategorized

Desert flight

February 17, 2020 • by Lois Henry

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Conservation • Drought • Personalities • State System • Water Banking

TUNE IN! KGET Channel 17 in Bakersfield Saturday night Nov. 23 6 p.m.

November 22, 2019 • by Lois Henry

Well this was a quick turnaround! I was invited by KGET Ch. 17 anchor Jim Scott to talk about water on his Kern County In-Depth program. We talked SGMA with Kern Delta Water District’s new Executive Steve Teglia (formerly Asst. City Manager for Bakersfield) and then Jim interviewed retiring Kern County Water Agency General Manager…

Conservation

It may be raining now, but we need to live like it’s dry

February 11, 2017 • by Lois Henry

This is sooooo California. The same day the state Water Resources Control Board announced it would continue the state’s drought emergency, so much water had to be let out of Lake Oroville that it broke the spillway. Drought? Huh? OK, so those optics were a bit confusing. But Water Resources was absolutely right to keep…