Only a fifth of junior water-rights holders already told to stop pumping from the San Joaquin Watershed have confirmed they were complying, a water board official said Wednesday.Board Director Tom ...

California farmers who hold rights to water that date as far back as the Gold Rush are bracing for their first state-ordered conservation in decades, as a record drought prompts some of the deepest ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS/AP) -- Regulators are ordering farmers with California's oldest water rights to stop pumping from the San Joaquin River watershed for the first time in memory. "We're in the Delta.

Angler Allison Kerlegan fishes on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in Stockton on June 1, 2024. (Loren Elliott/CalMatters) Environmentalists say in addition to the Delta fish declines caused by ...

But even those with rights in the San Joaquin watershed that date back to 1900, before California enacted its water rights law, are expected to be hit with the curtailment orders.

California regulators adopted a plan to keep more water in tributaries of the San Joaquin River to help struggling fish. A court has upheld that decision.

In 2018 the state water board adopted new standards for saltwater encroaching on the southern Delta and set flow requirements for the Lower San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tuolumne and Merced Rivers.

While many San Joaquin Valley towns were shrouded in tule fog, about 35 locals enjoyed a day under bright sunshine along a creekbed, dodging cowpies and traipsing through crunchy, golden sycamore ...

Fritz Buchman, director of the San Joaquin Public Works Department, told KCRA 3 that a nearly $2.5 million drainage and pump system – paid for with federal funding – was installed in 2019.

In addition, the federal pumps in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta are operating at maximum capacity and storing water in ...