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Sierra Nevada snow flights are booking fast

November 2, 2021

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water reporting intern

Demand for snow runoff forecasting is surging in the San Joaquin Valley, particularly after the past bone-dry year. Snow monitoring flights are already being tentatively scheduled by valley water districts ahead of winter. “Everybody’s anxious for the water year,” said Michael Anderson, state climatologist for California’s Department of Water Resources (DWR). “What is it going…

Drought

Bomb cylone? Thanks….what else ya got?

October 27, 2021

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water reporting intern

The west coast was slammed Oct. 24-25 by a bomb cyclone, a historic storm that dumped record breaking levels of precipitation on much of California. The rain came from long streams of moisture called atmospheric rivers. San Francisco recorded more than four inches of rain on October 24, the most for a single October day…

Drought

State gives more water to popular I-5 pitstop, but locals say it won’t be enough

October 26, 2021

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water reporting intern

Christmas travelers driving Interstate 5 this year may need to hunt up a different stopping point as Kettleman City could be shut down for lack of water. The state Department of Water Resources (DWR) has said it will give the tiny community in western Kings County a few more acre feet of water — but…

Rivers

San Joaquin salmon coaxed through the long, hot summer

October 21, 2021

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water reporting trainee

Spring-run Chinook Salmon are starting to spawn in the San Joaquin River after a brutally dry, hot summer. But the success of the juvenile fish is uncertain as the drought and high temperatures continue. Spring-run salmon, which return to the river from the ocean as adults in spring months, have been absent from the San…

Drinking Water • Drought

Lack of water dries up new housing in rural communities

October 20, 2021

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water reporting trainee

Water has become a major roadblock to desperately needed housing in rural communities throughout the San Joaquin Valley. Water scarcity and lack of infrastructure has scared off developers just when housing is most needed, according to officials and nonprofits that work on both water and housing. “The lack of development interest has a lot to…

Drinking Water • Drought

Drought could dry up popular I-5 oasis

October 13, 2021

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water reporting trainee

Kettleman City, a popular stop for travelers on Interstate 5 with its host of gas stations and fast food joints, is on the brink of going dry. If that happens, those businesses could shut down. Lawmakers and others are trying to work out a fix but so far, things are moving slowly. “If they don’t…

Drinking Water • Drought

Summer of 2021, another dry-well-a-palooza

October 11, 2021

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water reporting intern

Phones were ringing practically non-stop at Self-Help Enterprises toward the end of this summer with valley residents all calling about the same problem: Their wells had gone dry. Employees were fielding 100s of calls a month from people whose wells had dried up, Marliez Diaz wrote in an email. Diaz is a water sustainability manager…

Rivers

Water in the Kern River an inspiration for local artists

October 7, 2021

• by Lois Henry

Painters, poets and musicians converged on the state Water Resources Control Board Tuesday as part of an unrelenting campaign to get water in the Kern River through Bakersfield. Bring Back the Kern, a local grassroots group, has facilitated public comments from a wide variety of individuals and groups, including brewers and, now, artists, at the…

Rivers

Kern River lawsuit “unleashed” public’s rights

October 6, 2021

• by Lois Henry

A new player has entered the fray over forfeited Kern River water rights, bolstering the position that the public has a right to a flowing river. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife argues in a legal brief filed recently that the state Water Resources Control Board is absolutely obligated to consider the public trust…

Drinking Water

State looks to consolidate small drinking water systems in Fresno

September 27, 2021

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water reporting intern

State drinking water officials have quietly targeted a dozen small, disadvantaged water systems in Fresno for possible state aid. But it could still take up to three years to get through the paperwork and start putting pipes in the ground. “It takes a long time, years, to go from concept to actual construction starting,” acknowledged…

NEWS

Sierra Nevada snow flights are booking fast

Bomb cylone? Thanks….what else ya got?

State gives more water to popular I-5 pitstop, but locals say it won’t be enough

San Joaquin salmon coaxed through the long, hot summer

Lack of water dries up new housing in rural communities

Drought could dry up popular I-5 oasis

Summer of 2021, another dry-well-a-palooza

Water in the Kern River an inspiration for local artists

Kern River lawsuit “unleashed” public’s rights

State looks to consolidate small drinking water systems in Fresno

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