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State warns more valley groundwater agencies their plans aren’t up to snuff

December 9, 2021

• by Jesse Vad and Lois Henry

Six subbasins covering nearly all of the central and southern San Joaquin Valley do not have adequate plans to address falling groundwater levels, according to letters sent Thursday by the Department of Water Resources to groundwater agencies within those subbasins. Subbasins with plans not likely to pass muster include the Delta-Mendota, Kaweah, Kern County, Kings,…

Friant-Kern Canal • Groundwater

Who should pay to fix California’s sunken canals?

December 9, 2021

• by Theo Whitcomb, High Country News

This piece is part of a collaboration that includes the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), California Health Report, Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, Circle of Blue, Colorado Public Radio, Columbia Insight, The Counter, High Country News, New Mexico In Depth and SJV Water. The project was made possible by a grant from the Water Foundation…

Rivers

Tribes want a say in Colorado River policy

December 8, 2021

• by Michael Elizabeth Sakas, Colorado Public Radio

Groundwater

As west withers corporations consolidate land and water rights

December 7, 2021

• by Eli Frankovich, Columbia Insight

Drinking Water • Drought

VIDEO: How some valley residents cope as their homes teeter on the brink of going dry

December 6, 2021

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water reporting intern

SJV Water reporting trainee Jesse Vad traveled to rural Fairmeade and Toolville to talk to residents about what it’s like to live under the constant possibility of their homes going dry as groundwater tables dropped at the height of the 2021 drought….

Friant-Kern Canal

State money for canal fixes set to start flowing

November 30, 2021

• by Lois Henry

The state Department of Water Resources opened the spigot Tuesday on the first $100 million, of $200 million, budgeted over the next two fiscal years to fix several key canals that have sunk because of groundwater pumping. Subsidence has reduced carrying capacity in the canals from 15% up to 60% in the Friant-Kern Canal, which…

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Groundwater plan managers not rattled by state’s initial negative reviews

November 29, 2021

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water reporting intern

Though the state’s first informal assessment of four San Joaquin Valley groundwater plans noted several — sometimes significant — deficiencies in those plans, groundwater managers were confident they could bring the plans up to snuff. “I did not read it as a failure at all,” said Stephanie Anagnoson, director of water and natural resources for…

Drinking Water

Utah’s Water Dilemma

November 29, 2021

• by Brett Walton, Circle of Blue

Rivers

New Kern River coalition; Grassroots or astroturf?

November 23, 2021

• by Lois Henry

The main water district involved in several legal battles for Kern River water has launched a new coalition/messaging campaign it is calling Sustainable Kern River. Its website says the organization is a coalition and lists several members, but its creation and funding comes from North Kern Water Storage District, according to North Kern’s General Manager…

Drought • Federal System

The Counter: How a federal drought relief program left southern Oregon parched—and contributed to the ongoing groundwater crisis in the West

November 23, 2021

• by Jessica Fu, The Counter

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