Items Tagged with 'California's water wars'

A county judge is siding with environmentalists in an ongoing lawsuit over dedicating freshwater flows from the Kern River to protecting fish populations.

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 ruling sets a limit on the water board’s authority. But the agency retains several regulatory tools for curtailing senior water rights, and lawmakers could add more.