On January 20, the White House released a Presidential Action memo on California water (see below). While the intent of the memo is...

The devastating fires in Los Angeles County, fairly or unfairly, have put a spotlight on California water policy. This attention has...

On the Colorado River, the Imperial Irrigation District conducted a large temporary land fallowing program this past fall. To qualify...

I had the privilege of being a panel member at the 10-year anniversary event of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, which...

It is no secret that the two major surface water supply systems that transport water from Northern California to the Central and...

Back at the end of August I wrote about a big decision that was going to be made about a particular regulation regarding the outflow of...

The Tule Subbasin probationary hearing took place this past Tuesday, September 17 at the State Water Board in Sacramento. An article by...

Two weeks ago, I wrote about a big water decision concerning a current endangered species act regulation that requires the release...

Over 350,000 acre-feet of stored northern California surface water is at stake in a decision that will be made by state and federal...

The implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) is a very local endeavor. Of course, the State plays a...

When the state of California began to implement and enforce the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act some nine years ago, it became...

About 90% of California’s dairy industry operates in the San Joaquin Valley. When California passed the Sustainable Groundwater...

A wise man once said, “You have to deal with the world the way that it is, and not the way you wished it would be.”  This is the...

On Tuesday, April 16, 2024, the State Water Resources Control Board will conduct a hearing to consider putting the Tulare Lake Subbasin...

It was a big week in Hanford, California for the Mid-Kings River Groundwater Sustainability Agency (MKRGSA), one of the five...

It has been a while since I wrote something on water for the Friday Report. That is not because there is nothing happening, but rather...

A few days ago, I had an opportunity to chat with a dairy real estate professional who is a regular reader of the MPC Friday Report.

There is a lot going on in California water right now and I will mention a number of things in today’s update. So much of it is a work...

The Kern Subbasin GSAs – and there are about 17 of them – have agreed on a common approach to setting minimum thresholds.

In making the rounds of public meetings of Inadequate Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) over the past couple of weeks...