San Joaquin Valley farmers – California Globe

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...

Assemblyman Adam Gray, John Duarte Locked In Tightest House Race In Country

November 21, 2022 5:40 pm

Almost two weeks following the mid-term elections, Assemblyman Adam Gray (D-Merced) and Businessman/Farmer John Duarte remain fiercely close in vote totals vying for the U.S. House of Representatives office for District 13. Less than 1,000 votes currently separating them and...

Dams and Desalination – California Needs Both

June 7, 2021 2:42 amJune 6, 2021 8:46 pm

When Californians can take showers, without flow restrictors, for as long as they want, and when Californians can have lawns again instead of rocks and cacti in their front yards, water infrastructure in California will once again be adequate. When...