Will 2014 be the year of groundwater reform. In April of 2011 The Association of California Water Agencies released the following policy paper on groundwater usage and management. Many of these suggestions were used as a basis for the current … [Read more...]

Almost invisible in thedrought debate this year are the two bills to change the way the state manages ground water. SB 1168 Pavely (D-Angora Hills) and AB 1739 Dickerson (D-Sacramento). Pavely’s bill will require categorization of each basin and sub … [Read more...]

(The following is an abridged copy of a speach that was given to Hillsdale College.) By William Perry Pendly, President of Mountain States Legal Foundation and author of Sagebrush Rebel In the late 1970s, President Carter’s "War on the West" spawned … [Read more...]

We all have them, the jeans in the back of our closet, the ones that we know will fit us when we lose a few pounds. We may take them out and try them on occasionally, and dream about wearing them again, but most of us never do. California’s water … [Read more...]

At a time when most conversations are about the impacts of drought on the Sacramento Valley, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is also reminding people to remember floods. FEMA held a meeting in Colusa to explain changes to flood … [Read more...]

The efforts to move the states’ drinking water program from the Department of Public Health (DPH) to a new division within the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) is almost complete. At a meeting of the Association of California Water … [Read more...]

As we enter planting season with a very uncertain water supply allocation understanding water rights is key. California has a very unique water rights system and it is paramount to the success of our 42 billion dollar agricultural economy that will … [Read more...]

The Northern Sacramento Valley Integrated Regional Water Management Plan (NSVIRWM) is nearing completion. After over three years of work by 6 Northern Sacramento Valley counties, property owners, water professionals and community members the draft … [Read more...]

Whoever said that politics make strange bedfellows must have been thinking about California. When Bay Area tech venture capitalist, Tim Draper gave efforts by the Jefferson Declaration Committee a helping hand. Draper has received approval to gather … [Read more...]

Ask anyone in Colusa County for perspective on local water issues, and odds are someone will probably refer you to Mr. Tom Ellis. A Colusa County native, and an alfalfa and rice farmer by trade, Ellis is also quite the historian, conversant on … [Read more...]