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Rivers

Tribes want a say in Colorado River policy

December 8, 2021

• by Michael Elizabeth Sakas, Colorado Public Radio

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…

Groundwater

As west withers corporations consolidate land and water rights

December 7, 2021

• by Eli Frankovich, Columbia Insight

Drought

Water transfers helped farmers survive this year. Now, all eyes are on the coming water year

September 15, 2021

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water reporting intern

Water transfers, trades and sales doubled this year as drought left San Joaquin Valley farmers scrambling for supplies. “This has been kind of an exceptional year for transfers,” said Sam Boland-Brien, program manager at the State Water Resources Control Board’s Division of Water Rights. Boland-Brien said he’s seen about twice the amount of transfers this…

Rivers

Public is in the ring in fight over Kern River

August 17, 2021

• by Lois Henry

It was clear during the first hearing on the Kern River Tuesday that the public has a seat at the table as never before. Tuesday’s hearing was mostly procedural — setting out which issues would be sorted first and how. Permeating the discussion at nearly every turn, however, was the public trust doctrine, which gives…

Drought

Thousands of water rights holders could be cut off from rivers

July 24, 2021

• by Lois Henry

California water regulators are preparing to do what they’ve been warning about for months – cut the spigot to thousands of water rights holders. The state Water Resources Control Board will consider an emergency order at its August 3 meeting that would bar farmers, cities and others from continuing to tap into rivers that feed…

Drought • Rivers

Historic move: Fresno River rights to be decided

October 30, 2020

• by Lois Henry

If all you’ve ever seen of the Fresno River is through Madera as you drive over it on Highway 99, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s just a weed-infested, shopping cart collector rather than a real river. But there’s a lot to this unobtrusive waterway, which just made history as the first river in 40…

NEWS

Tribes want a say in Colorado River policy

As west withers corporations consolidate land and water rights

Water transfers helped farmers survive this year. Now, all eyes are on the coming water year

Public is in the ring in fight over Kern River

Thousands of water rights holders could be cut off from rivers

Historic move: Fresno River rights to be decided

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