Water board to pay $3000 an acre-foot for groundwater retirement

To save its aquifer, the Rio Grande Water Conservation District plans to pay farmers in the San Luis Valley $3,000 an AF to retire their groundwater wells.

Del Puerto Canyon Reservoir draft review opens in California

The Bureau of Reclamation has released a draft environmental impact statement for the Del Puerto Canyon Reservoir, a proposed offstream water storage project in California’s Central Valley.