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Utah’s Water Dilemma

November 29, 2021

• by Brett Walton, Circle of Blue

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…

SGMA

State’s groundwater “cop” hands out more criticism of valley plans

November 19, 2021

• by Lois Henry

Another set of comments critical of how San Joaquin Valley groundwater plans will impact drinking water wells dropped on Friday from the powerful State Water Resources Control Board. The comments focused on plans that cover the City of Fresno and many surrounding towns as well as Visalia and a number of smaller towns in Tulare…

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…

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…

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…

Drinking Water • Drought

Fresno County towns with no drinking water drown in debt while residents wait for new well

September 12, 2021

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water reporting intern

This story was produced with funding and support from Fresnoland, for the Fresno Bee. Republishing is encouraged 48 hours after initial posting. The longer it takes for two new wells to be dug in Cantua Creek and El Porvenir in western Fresno County, the deeper in debt the towns are mired. Now, with the drought, those well projects are…

Drinking Water • Drought

How drought forced California to mandate drinking water consolidation for Tooleville

August 31, 2021

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water reporting intern

This story was produced with funding and support from Fresnoland, for the Fresno Bee. Republishing is encouraged 48 hours after initial posting. Life in Tooleville wasn’t easy before the latest drought. Residents of this tiny, two-road farmworker community, tucked into the edge of the Sierra Nevada foothills in eastern Tulare County, have been living on bottled water…

Drinking Water • Drought

Drought outpaces plans to fix failing drinking water systems

August 18, 2021

• by Jesse Vad and Lois Henry

This story was produced with funding and support from Fresnoland, for the Fresno Bee. Republishing is encouraged 48 hours after initial posting. A lot has happened over the past five years, but not much has changed in the tiny farmworker town of Okieville. Wells went dry enmasse in Tulare County, including in Okieville, during the last…

Drinking Water • Drought • Groundwater

State still hasn’t fixed Porterville drinking water crisis from the last drought. Will residents go dry again?

June 30, 2021

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water reporting intern

The epicenter of dry wells during California’s last devastating drought was undoubtedly Porterville. The small Tulare County town saw wells go dry enmasse in its unincorporated east side. It became a national headline as the media descended. Amid the glare of tv cameras, the state pledged to help and agreed to build three new wells….

NEWS

Utah’s Water Dilemma

State’s groundwater “cop” hands out more criticism of valley plans

Bomb cylone? Thanks….what else ya got?

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

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

State looks to consolidate small drinking water systems in Fresno

Fresno County towns with no drinking water drown in debt while residents wait for new well

How drought forced California to mandate drinking water consolidation for Tooleville

Drought outpaces plans to fix failing drinking water systems

State still hasn’t fixed Porterville drinking water crisis from the last drought. Will residents go dry again?

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