Several irrigation districts and others having pre-1914 senior water rights have sued the State of California over water shut-offs and denial of due process. Historic water rights were cut last month...
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The Metropolitan Water District in southern California declared a water supply alert, triggering voluntary water use reductions. The District serves 19 million people.
For the first time since Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam were constructed in the 1930s, the federal government has declared a water shortage. Arizona will be hardest hit.
Desalination Development Act reintroduced to ease CA water woes
Rep. Mike Levin (D-CA) reintroduced The Desalination Development Act to raise the funding authorization for the Bureau of Reclamation’s grant program. The bill authorizes $260 million over the...
People living and working in Glenn County, CA say their wells are drying up. Some families are having to get clean drinking water from county relief agencies and they are unable to shower or do other...
Hot weather threatens endangered salmon; Calif. reservoirs low
California's endangered winter-run Chinook salmon could be cooked to death this fall because the Sacramento River is too hot. At the Klamath River, over a million juvenile fish have been relocated by...