Despite the fact that California has very full Northern California reservoirs and plenty of capacity in the major aqueducts and space to store water south of the delta, the state and federal delta pumping plants sit virtually idle, allowing tens of thousands of acre-feet of fresh water to flow out to the ocean every day. As the Water Blueprint for the San Joaquin Valley pointed...

A well-attended panel discussion on water for dairy operations was part of the program for the California Dairy Sustainability Summit...

Semitropic Water Storage District in Kern County approved paying its share of the planning and permitting cost for the delta tunnel this...

I attended two separate Kern Subbasin GSA board meetings this past week. The Kern folks are ready for their hearing. A tremendous amount...

On February 10, 2025, flows from the Sacramento River through the Delta were increasing following a series of storms in Northern California.

California is in a situation right now where the northern part of the state (above Sacramento) is very wet, and the rest of the state...

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...

There is intense activity going on right now in the Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) whose plans were deemed “inadequate” by...

The legislation that launched the state’s comprehensive regulation of groundwater, commonly known as SGMA, was passed in 2014. One of...

The precipitation this winter has significantly increased the anticipated inflow to the Colorado River system, particularly into Lake...

An enormous amount of water is flowing out of the Delta into the ocean. The two pumping plants that export water to the California...

The illustrated map below was part of a presentation given by state officials this week to bring attention to the tremendous...

Eight and a half years after the passage of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, the California Department of Water Resources...

Last week we reported that Governor Newson had issued an Emergency Order that paved the way for the State Water Board to...

With the imminent threat of losing hundreds of thousands of acre-feet of stored water to the ocean, Governor Newsom on Monday issued...

Some good news to report this week on the water front. Exports scheduled today from the state pumps are 9,500 cubic feet per second...

Water was the dominate theme this week in California. After three very dry years, the winter of 2023 is starting to look wet.

As we end 2022, the weather has turned very wet throughout California. What a blessing. While having a wet winter will not by itself...

There is a lot of activity going on right now in the Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) I cover for Milk Producers Council.

At the end of September, the Board of Directors of the Greater Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GKGSA) took action to...

This week, the Board of the Greater Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) adopted a groundwater allocation for landowners...

As regular readers of this newsletter know, Milk Producers Council was a strong supporter of the More Water Now initiative effort...

There is a lot happening on water right now. What follows is a list of relevant water articles I have read this week. I share them...

The Water Blueprint for the San Joaquin Valley serves as the united voice to champion water resource policies and projects to...

The Madera County Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) represents the groundwater-only portion of two critically overdrafted...

In a dry year like this one, when there is not enough water to go around, who gets what and why is very complicated. The Friant...

The Save Our Communities meeting was held in Visalia this morning, with more than 250 people in attendance. Roger Isom, President & CEO...

Last week, we sent an e-blast to our members of an article published on Water Wrights providing a great overview of Governor...

A very important paper was released this week outlining a dairy facility's water consumption. This is a particularly important paper...

It took me a while, but I finally got through all 122 pages of the court order, issued a few weeks ago by Federal District Court Judge...

While a lot of focus has been on the drought and its impact on water supplies in the Central Valley, there is another major water...