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California Farmers are Being Left Out to Dry

September 18, 2025 7:00 amSeptember 23, 2025 9:16 am

By Tate Bennett and Mike Garcia California’s water wars have always been contentious, but what is happening in Potter Valley right now is an assault on common sense and a direct threat to rural families, food security, and wildfire protection....

Ringside: How the Federal Government Can Massively Fund Water Supply Infrastructure

September 18, 2025 2:45 amSeptember 18, 2025 2:46 am

A few months ago I had the privilege of speaking directly with some of the top executives at one of California’s largest water agencies. Their primary question for me was explicit, and my attempts to answer were inadequate. They contend,...

Newsom’s California: From The Golden State to The Garbage State

September 10, 2025 12:13 amSeptember 11, 2025 6:42 am

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) tacitly admitted last week that California has morphed from the Golden State into the Garbage State. After launching the $1.2 billion Clean California Initiative in 2021, the state, in cooperation with Caltrans, communities and volunteers,...

Hanoi’s ‘Green’ Path to Poverty and Blackouts

September 2, 2025 2:33 pmSeptember 2, 2025 2:33 pm

Vietnam’s decision to prohibit gasoline-powered motorcycles in central Hanoi beginning July 1, 2026, is a textbook example of climate dogma disrupting developing economies with potentially devastating consequences. The policy will take effect in Hanoi’s downtown districts, then expand to outer...

California Climate Change Board Obsessed with ‘Racial Equity’

August 29, 2025 3:45 amAugust 29, 2025 3:46 am

California spends billions annually on a fool’s errand: trying to unilaterally change the Earth’s temperature. “Global warming” (now called “climate change” to explain both heat waves and cold snaps), has been used by the left for decades to implement its...

Ringside: How Dredging the Delta Enables Groundwater Recharge

August 28, 2025 3:45 amAugust 28, 2025 3:46 am

ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization and winner of multiple Pulitzer prizes, recently published a report “The Drying Planet.” They report that “Moisture lost to evaporation and drought, plus runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the...

Ringside: Tips to Understand Our Convoluted Yet Obligatory Units of Water

August 21, 2025 2:55 amAugust 21, 2025 6:39 am

Those of us following water politics and the water industry have become familiar with the most common units of water volume and water flow. Professionals in the industry make constant use of terms, often reduced to acronyms, forgetting that the...