On July 28 Gov. Gavin Newsom issued what he called a Water Resilience Portfolio. Prior governors have put out ambitious water plans, such as Jerry Brown’s Water Fix and Eco-Restore Plans. However, Newsom’s water portfolio is not a plan and...
A controversial aspect of new California groundwater regulation is the unofficial collaboration of the Environmental Defense Fund to structure water markets that previously failed; and circular buy-outs of farmlands funded with high water rates paid by the same farmers whose...