NEWS

What’s in the water? There’s a class for that

June 27, 2022

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

Want to learn more about where your family’s drinking water comes from? What’s in it? Why it costs so much? And what the future holds? A Water Leadership Institute for residents of the southern San Joaquin Valley will start later this summer and classes are free. The institute, which is taking applications now, is…

Personalities

The face of California’s water world is changing

August 16, 2021

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water reporting intern

In California’s water world, long dominated almost exclusively by men, women are blazing a path — sometimes straight to the top. “I think water is changing,” said Karla Nemeth, director of California’s Department of Water Resources. “There’s more and more of an understanding that as a society and even politically, we’re not going to get…