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High schoolers deepen their water knowledge at Sacramento conference

April 8, 2024

• by Lisa McEwen, SJV Water

Acronyms are so prevalent in the water industry that stringing several together can form an impressive-sounding sentence. That’s exactly what Hanford High School junior Morgan Carrroll did at an April 5 workshop in Sacramento called Water 101 put on by the Water Education Foundation. After winning a game of bingo no less. The bingo game…

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Court ruling against bond financing for controversial delta tunnel won’t impede project, state says

March 27, 2024

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

A recent court ruling may have thrown a wrench in the state’s funding plans for the controversial and expensive Delta Conveyance Project – a tunnel to move Sacramento River water 45 miles beneath the ecologically sensitive Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. In January, the Sacramento Superior Court denied the state Department of Water Resources’ (DWR) request to…

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More wet weather boosts water supplies for San Joaquin Valley farms and cities

February 22, 2023

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

Farms and cities that rely on water out of California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta got more good news this week as state and federal water agencies took measures to move more water south. The moves come between a significant series of stories earlier this winter and as the state faces a rare wet, cold front that…

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Retiring Delta Watermaster advises “pray for rain” but “plan for drought”

January 6, 2023

• by Rose Horowitch, SJV Water reporting intern

It may be raining now but Michael George, Watermaster for the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta, urged his colleagues at the State Water Resources Control Board to always be planning for drought. “The Delta mantra: we pray for rain; we’re getting it. We plan for drought; it will be back,” George said during his final report before…

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VIDEO: Frustrated San Joaquin Valley farmers take grievances to Sacramento

October 27, 2022

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

A group of farmers, mostly from Madera, protested on the steps of the capitol in Sacramento against what they feel has been extreme mismanagement of the state’s water resources. The protest comes as groundwater managers in the Madera subbasin are wrestling with how to adhere to a state mandate to bring its aquifer back into…

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Bulk of money in state’s plan to buy water rights directed at northern California watersheds

June 15, 2022

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

A California Senate proposal to spend $2 billion to buy senior water rights would focus mostly on rights in northern California watersheds with another large chunk aimed at farmland retirement throughout the state. The proposal is included in an $18.5 billion climate plan within the state budget, which likely won’t be finalized until the end…

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High schoolers deepen their water knowledge at Sacramento conference

Court ruling against bond financing for controversial delta tunnel won’t impede project, state says

More wet weather boosts water supplies for San Joaquin Valley farms and cities

Retiring Delta Watermaster advises “pray for rain” but “plan for drought”

VIDEO: Frustrated San Joaquin Valley farmers take grievances to Sacramento

Bulk of money in state’s plan to buy water rights directed at northern California watersheds

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