Culminating years of effort, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and China’s Vice Premier Wang Yang have signed a phytosanitary protocol that will permit U.S rice imports to China. China is the world’s largest importer and consumer of rice, … [Read more...]

By Jake Voorhees At school, students at Duke always are baffled about why I want to be a water rights lawyer. They simply cannot believe that water is as complex and nuanced as I describe it to be. They always just associate water with what comes … [Read more...]

Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (CVRWQCB) to Host Public Outreach Meetings on TMDL. The CVRWQCB will hold a public meeting on August 28, 2017 at 1:00pm at the Lakeport City Hall to discuss the extension of the deadline for the … [Read more...]

The headline for an article for the Charlotte Observer cries “Fish or farms? The issue is the bill that is being pushed by Southern California water users that some say will weaken enviromental laws. Others say the bill would save farms. The writer … [Read more...]

The California Farm Bureau (CFB) has provided members with a compliance guide for the new regulations for surface water diversions. These changes were part of SB88 (2015) and have added requirements and penalties for water users who divert over 10 … [Read more...]

Family Water Alliance was fortunate to have two summer interns this year. Jake Voorhees and Luke Van Mol. Jake will be a junior at Duke University and his interest is in environmental law. You can see Jake’s perspective in his article of his meeting … [Read more...]

At the request of the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors the Vice Chair of the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) Steven Moore along with staff, attended the July 11, 2017 board meeting to discuss the Shasta River Hydrology Report. The … [Read more...]

The California Water Fix, the planning document from the CalFed process, mandates that some method of correcting the salt water influx to the Delta must be found. California water officials believe that the solution would be a series of pumps that … [Read more...]