I spent two days this week at the San Joaquin Valley Water Resiliency Summit at Fresno State. I was on a panel on day one talking about the Water Blueprint’s Unified Valley Water Plan and how it might fit into the State of California’s Water Plan 2028.

On Tuesday afternoon, the State Water Resources Control Board spent more than four hours considering requests from eight Tule Subbasin groundwater sustainability agencies (GSAs) to be excluded from the SGMA probation requirements – specifically, the requirements to report groundwater pumping and pay state fees tied to that pumping. See the next article for a meeting recap.

The Kings County Farm Bureau (KCFB) was in court this week on their lawsuit against the State Water Resources Control Board. Here is an update from Dusty Ference, KCFB Executive Director:

On February 9, 2026, Congressmen Costa, Gray, Valadao and Fong jointly sent a letter to Governor Newsom (read here) asking him to suspend a regulation in the Delta called the Port Chicago water quality standard because the triggering of this standard would require releases from the reservoirs and the loss of as much as 600,000 acre-feet of fresh water to the ocean. If you remember, in January the California drought map showed our state for the first time in a long time comple