Our doctrine of appropriative and riparian water rights was enacted in the early 1850s and is literally about who has the right to use river water in California. Whomever claims water for a ...

California still recognizes water rights based on those old claims, as well as riparian rights based on land ownership next to rivers and streams. Rights to surface water under the state’s prior ...

California legislators have passed a bill ... state water regulators may investigate claims of pre-1914 or riparian water rights, issue an order for information, and, after a hearing, curb any ...

Those claims are not true. In California, water rights are owned by a collection of municipalities, homeowners and agricultural interests. Rights holders do not own the actual water; they own the ...

When settlers came to California in the 1800s, they staked out land and diverted water from nearby sources, establishing appropriative rights. These were in addition riparian rights, which are ...

The curious minds at ColdFusion investigate how California allowed billionaires to control the state’s most precious resource: water. House Democrats demand answers from Noem on plans for $50M ...

The Wonderful Co. also owns water rights across its farmland. But those sources amount to a tiny percentage of California’s overall water, experts said. The Kern Water Bank can store up to 1.5 ...

If California realized its unique potential to invest in new water supply projects, with federal help, it would give it the ability to be flexible when asserting its senior water rights on the ...

Firefighters are working to contain the Los Angeles fires. As of Jan. 16, the Palisades Fire consumed more than 23,000 acres and was 31% contained. The Eaton Fire, which has scorched more than ...