Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aerial view of the Delta and the islands separated (from foreground to top) by the Franks Tract, the San Joaquin River and the ...

The State Water Resources Control Board is gearing up to approve this year a long-awaited update to its Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan. The state is endorsing a more holistic approach to the ...

Members of the Great Valley Farm Water Partnership spoke during the 2025 ACWA Spring conference. (Photo: Chloe Lovejoy) Fourteen farmers representing portions of California’s Delta and the San Joaquin ...

It’s been almost a half-century since I first heard the term “peripheral canal” uttered by William Gianelli, who was then-Gov. Ronald Reagan’s top water official. The project, in one form or another, ...

The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons When the Trump administration presented a new plan exporting more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta five years ago ...

When the Trump administration rolled back endangered species protections in the Bay Area delta that serves as the hub of California’s water-supply system, the state decided to go its own way. It sued ...

With the Bay-Delta watershed in the throes of an ecological crisis, California’s water regulators Thursday unveiled several controversial options for managing the heart of the state’s water supply.

Aerial photos of the region to be affected by the Delta water tunnels and intakes. Randall Benton Fresno Bee file The farmland in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta area contains some of the ...