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Our “valley of tribes” must work together on water issues

November 14, 2019

• by Lois Henry

Water and oil do mix, or at least they should in order for the San Joaquin Valley to succeed, said Sarge Green, a project director at the Water, Education and Technology (WET) center at Fresno State. Green spoke at the annual Kern Energy Summit Wednesday morning. He was joined by Steve Bohlen, Energy and Homeland…

State water contractors should “drill into” California’s response to new delta biological opinions

November 14, 2019

• by Lois Henry

A top federal water official warned members of a Central Valley water group that the state’s response to new guidelines for federally endangered fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta would likely include alternatives “inconsistent with your interests.” Ernest Conant, director of the California Great Basin Region of the Bureau of Reclamation (until recently known as…

Groundwater

Farmers looking for answers in groundwater plans

October 18, 2019

• by Lois Henry

Now that actual pumping amounts are coming out per the state’s new groundwater law, farmers, bankers, farm managers and others are getting a clearer picture of their post SGMA worlds. And they have questions. About 25 people attended a recent groundwater sustainability plan presentation in Shafter for landowners in the Shafter-Wasco Irrigation and North Kern…

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SJV Water on the Richard Beene radio show KERN 1180a.m./96.1f.m.

October 11, 2019

• by Lois Henry

I was on the radio yesterday talking about SJV Water and our first story detailing the wide gulf between what Kern water manager’s claim our groundwater overdraft is and what modeling has shown it truly is. Spoiler alert: The overdraft is BIG! CLICK HERE to listen to the radio interview. …

Groundwater

Water updates large and small

July 16, 2019

• by Lois Henry

What’s new in water? Oh, I thought you’d never ask. I’ve got some important tidbits for you. Oh don’t whine, this is the last water column by me you’ll have to slog through so COWGRRRL UP! The biggest, immediate water question right now is: Will they? Or won’t they? I’m talking about the California WaterFix and…

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TEST

May 31, 2019

• by Lois Henry

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Conservation

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

April 1, 2019

• 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…

Personalities

Is John Vidovich planning to sell off the valley’s lifeblood? Or is he just the newest water baron on the block?

April 1, 2019

• by Lois Henry

When you first meet John Vidovich, everything from his ball cap to his dirty boots tells you he’s a farmer. He certainly looks the part in his well-worn jeans and checkered shirts. But this outwardly unassuming multimillionaire has become a lightning rod of controversy. Because, while he does farm thousands of acres of pistachios, almonds…

Personalities

Water conspiracy or just poor optics?

April 1, 2019

• by Lois Henry

There’s a reason Matt Hurley wears so many hats, his critics say. And he does wear a lot of hats: General manager of Angiola Water District, Green Valley Water District and Deer Creek Storm Water District; chairman of the newly formed Tri-County Water Authority; and he’s a director on the Fresno Slough Water District and…

Water Banking

Cowboy tactics not helping turn failed McAllister Ranch subdivision into Kern’s newest water bank

April 1, 2019

• by Lois Henry

Well, that didn’t take long. It’s been less than a month since Buena Vista Water Storage District bought the remaining 600 acres of the failed McAllister Ranch subdivision and it’s already butting heads with Bakersfield city officials. Like, major league butting. The city cited the water district last week for excavating several ditches on the…

NEWS

Our “valley of tribes” must work together on water issues

State water contractors should “drill into” California’s response to new delta biological opinions

Farmers looking for answers in groundwater plans

SJV Water on the Richard Beene radio show KERN 1180a.m./96.1f.m.

Water updates large and small

TEST

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

Is John Vidovich planning to sell off the valley’s lifeblood? Or is he just the newest water baron on the block?

Water conspiracy or just poor optics?

Cowboy tactics not helping turn failed McAllister Ranch subdivision into Kern’s newest water bank

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