California’s Water Reform Takes Shape

Source: DWR (http://www.water.ca.gov/newsroom/photo/ag/groundwater_banking1.jpg) Last week California passed a landmark water package. In a state facing its third year of drought it is an important step, but before the state’s political leaders congratulate themselves on a job well done, we should remind ourselves that it just that, a step. The state’s aging water infrastructure and conveyance system are still decades overdue for repair,... Read More

Waters Run Dry in California

   California’s Central Valley reaches about 400 miles, from Bakersfield in the south to Redding in the north, encompassing a stretch of land roughly the size of Tennessee. The region is also home to some of the most fertile and productive soils in the world. Over millennia, sedimentation from the Sierra Nevada mountains to the east has been deposited into the valley below through annual snow melt and run-off, delivering rich silt into what is... Read More