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Got connections in rural SJV towns? Know how to work a room? The state may have a job for you…

March 3, 2022

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

If you know your way around impoverished, rural communities with bad drinking water in the San Joaquin Valley, the state needs your help. A highly anticipated $130 million annual program to fix bad drinking water systems in disadvantaged communities has sputtered getting off the ground because the state can’t seem to connect with residents. So,…

Drinking Water • Personalities

Lois Henry calls it quits!!!!

March 3, 2022

• by Lois Henry

Longtime water board member in the Santa Cruz area Lois Henry (not this reporter) has resigned her position on the San Lorenzo Valley Water District. Why should San Joaquin Valley readers care? Because she’s a strong leader who brought a lot of practical, common sense to delivering clean, reliable drinking water to her neighbors and,…

Rivers

POSTPONED!!!! Panel: Is there a way for all sides to “win” in the Kern River fight?

March 2, 2022

• by Lois Henry

!!!POSTPONED!!! Scheduling conflicts have waylaid this panel for some time. Please check back here or on the Bring Back the Kern site. The local grassroots group, Bring Back the Kern, will host a series of roundtable discussions to look at ways to restore the Kern River through Bakersfield and still satisfy…

Drought

Skimpy state snowpack points to another long, dry summer

March 1, 2022

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

California’s Department of Water Resources (DWR) conducted its third snow survey of the season and the outlook is not good for the state’s water users. The survey recorded 35 inches of snow at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada mountains below Lake Tahoe. That’s about 68% of average for this time of year. Statewide, snowpack…

Groundwater • Personalities

Latest allegation in Boswell-Vidovich ditch bank battle: Environmental laws were willfully ignored

February 27, 2022

• by Lois Henry

Last we left off, Kings County’s two biggest farming companies were at impasse over a pipeline with heavy equipment and work crews standing guard atop the Tulare Lake Canal to keep a trench from being cut through its banks. Attorneys for the Tulare Lake Canal Company, controlled by the giant J.G. Boswell Company, and Sandridge…

Personalities

Water policy and politics, always an interesting mix

February 23, 2022

• by Jesse Vad and Lois Henry, SJV Water

Just before announcing she was switching her quest for reelection from one state Senate district to another, Melissa Hurtado appears to have thrown up a flag announcing her conservative bona fides in what could become a contest of the most right-leaning Democrat. On Feb. 17, Hurtado, who currently represents Sanger, introduced Senate Bill 1219 to…

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VIDEO: Water is a hot topic at the World Ag Expo in Tulare County

February 9, 2022

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

Tractors, irrigation technology, harvesting machines and more tractors lined the dirt roads of the World Ag Expo in Tulare this week. The world’s largest agriculture exposition took place from February 8-10th and included more than 1,200 exhibitors. Spread across a 2.6-million-square-foot lot, the expo not only hosted tents of exhibitors showing off their products…

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VIDEO: Tractors, vendors, demos and…well…lots of tractors mark return of the World Ag Expo

February 9, 2022

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

The World Ag Expo was held in Tulare County in person this year, Feb. 8-10, after a 2-year COVID hiatus. Our video tries to capture at least some of the sights, sounds and, yes, smells of this massive annual event. …

Groundwater • SGMA

Gov.’s proposed $40 million for farmland retirement is welcome but more needed

February 3, 2022

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

More money could be coming to California’s new farmland repurposing program. But it’s still just a drop in the bucket, according experts. In his budget summary for 2022-2023, Governor Newsom proposed an additional $40 million for the Multibenefit Land Repurposing Program, a program approved last year to pay farmers incentives for taking irrigated land out…

Drought

Monthly report on Kern River watershed shows underachieving snow pack, so far

February 1, 2022

• by Lois Henry

The monthly Kern River Snow and Water Report ,compiled by a Kern River Valley water watcher, was delivered to email inboxes Feb. 1 and the news was sub par. Scott Williams, of Kernville, compiles a monthly precipitation report for the Kern River watershed from numerous publicly available sources. The report shows a roller coaster water…

NEWS

Got connections in rural SJV towns? Know how to work a room? The state may have a job for you…

Lois Henry calls it quits!!!!

POSTPONED!!!! Panel: Is there a way for all sides to “win” in the Kern River fight?

Skimpy state snowpack points to another long, dry summer

Latest allegation in Boswell-Vidovich ditch bank battle: Environmental laws were willfully ignored

Water policy and politics, always an interesting mix

VIDEO: Water is a hot topic at the World Ag Expo in Tulare County

VIDEO: Tractors, vendors, demos and…well…lots of tractors mark return of the World Ag Expo

Gov.’s proposed $40 million for farmland retirement is welcome but more needed

Monthly report on Kern River watershed shows underachieving snow pack, so far

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