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Accusations that one wealthy couple, Stewart and Lynda Resnick, have been hoarding water needed to fight the Southern California wildfires have been spreading widely online. While the Resnicks do ...
The SWP is a water storage and delivery system extending more than 700 miles, two-thirds the length of California. According to a map from the DWR, the SWP is made up of five field divisions. The ...
The board vote was 5-0. The water board has permit authority over all streams, rivers — whether ephemeral or not — and any waters that belong to the State of California or the United States. Sable is ...
The owners of the privately held agricultural business, Wonderful Co., do not own most of California’s water. Through the Wonderful Co., Stewart and Lynda Resnick have a majority stake in a ...
The decision was made based on water testing and analysis conducted by the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board on the ocean water and sand between the end of January and mid-March ...
A court ruled in favor of BlueTriton Brands after California regulators had ordered the bottled-water company to stop taking water from a national forest.
Free well testing and replacement water are now available for nitrate-impacted wells in Central Valley, California communities like Fresno, Madera, and Merced.
State Water Resources Control Board v. The Superior Court of Kings County, No. F088909 (Nov. 7, 2024); Kings County Farm Bureau v. State Water Resources Control Board, No. F088720 (Oct. 2, 2024 ...
A 2021 Forbes report shows that Wonderful Co. uses 150 billion gallons of water annually. PPIC Water Policy Center data from 1998 to 2015 says that California uses an average of 25.16 trillion ...