Items Tagged with 'Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan'

Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed Department of Water Resources Director Karla Nemeth to advise his office on water priorities.

Bains has bill to build salinity barriers and another to protect ag from a Southern California water grab.

The state is preparing for a warm winter, a worse drought and a chance of biblical floods—offering little reliability for farmers eyeing the next planting season.

The Biden administration expects to start distributing the first dollars from the new, bipartisan infrastructure bill in the first half of 2022, but it is likely to take significantly longer for farmers and rural Americans to see some of the long-sought spending.

State officials are increasing pressure on Californians to further reduce water use as they run up against barriers in a water system that has lost flexibility for adapting to scarcity.