Bureau of Reclamation – California Globe

Ringside: The Regulatory Burden that Prevents Abundance

November 13, 2025 2:55 amNovember 13, 2025 2:56 am

The cost-of-living has become a national issue, a favored topic of partisan debate. The debate is governed by emotions, ideology, and widely divergent economic theories, probably in that order. Our contribution to this debate, drawing on all three of those...

Ringside: How to Add 10 Million Acre Feet Per Year to California’s Water Supply

April 30, 2025 3:52 pmApril 30, 2025 3:52 pm

There is a good chance that a Californian is going to be nominated to become the new Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation. One source of opposition to his confirmation could be senators representing states that share with California the...

A Shared Lifeline: Ensuring Water and Food Security for California

January 30, 2025 3:00 amJanuary 30, 2025 3:01 am

California’s water challenges are as complex and dynamic as the state itself. From its agricultural heartlands to its sprawling urban centers, the tug-of-war over this precious resource shapes much of our policy debates and future prospects. Recent developments in water...

Ringside: Congress Comes to Santa Nella to Talk About Water

September 19, 2024 6:42 amSeptember 19, 2024 6:42 am

The Great Valley of California, one of “the more notable structural depressions in the world,” covers an area of 20,000 square miles. More than half of it, about 6.7 million acres, or over 10,000 square miles, is irrigated farmland. If you...

Did Fish and Game Officials Just Cause 850,000 Juvenile Salmon to Die?

March 3, 2024 9:53 amMarch 3, 2024 2:42 pm

The removal of dams along the Klamath River in Siskiyou County, Northern California was sold to Californians as necessary to save salmon – specifically, “to restore habitat for endangered fish,” the Globe reported. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife...

Is California’s Klamath River Dam Removal a Ghoulish Experiment?

February 29, 2024 10:00 amMarch 2, 2024 7:40 am

This is the third article in a series about the Klamath Dam Removal project in Siskiyou County: This is the First; This is the second. In 2018, plans were released to destroy the Klamath River dam system by American Rivers,...

Department of Interior To Give $250 Million In Funding For Salton Sea Restoration Efforts

November 29, 2022 12:28 pm

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced on Monday that they will provide $250 million in funding to help reduce health risks and increase aquatic restoration efforts at the Salton Sea in Southern California. Since being formed over 100 years ago,...