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Ringside: Finding Water for the San Joaquin Valley

December 5, 2024 10:43 amDecember 5, 2024 10:43 am

Farmers in the San Joaquin Valley require roughly 15 million acre feet of water per year to irrigate their crops. In return they produce more than half of all California’s agricultural output. But everything is changing. Since 2000 the amount of...

Ringside: The Price of Scarcity

December 27, 2023 6:00 pmDecember 27, 2023 6:01 pm

How much water does $7 billion buy? In so many ways that it almost defies description, California’s lawmakers have relied on flawed logic to justify recently passed laws that will impose punitive urban water rationing. Rather than undertake the Sisyphean...

Questions About Water for Governor Newsom

August 24, 2022 3:30 amAugust 23, 2022 5:36 pm

Borrowing a page from the More Water Now campaign, which unsuccessfully attempted earlier this year to qualify a water funding initiative for the November 2022 ballot, Governor Newsom announced a new water supply strategy on August 11. Perhaps with the presidency in mind, or perhaps because...