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The San Joaquin Valley of California has seen environmental issues arise from agricultural production, industrial processing, and the region's use as a transportation corridor, experiencing some of the nation’s worst air quality, high rates of childhood asthma, and contaminated drinking water. [1] Geographically, the San Joaquin Valley ...
The president has sought to link local water supply problems during the L.A. County firestorms, ... “so there isn't a demand” for the water in the San Joaquin Valley at this time. ...
California’s San Joaquin Valley may be sinking nearly an inch per year due to the over-pumping of groundwater supplies, with resource extraction outpacing natural recharge, a new study has found.
A criminal case unfolding in the San Joaquin Valley underscores how the federal government seems to have similar problems. Prosecutors say they uncovered a massive water theft that went on for 23 ...
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley Emergency Water Delivery Act is a bill that tries to address the severe California drought.The bill would change some environmental regulations and stop or delay a project designed to restore a dried up section of the San Joaquin River (a habitat for some salmon). [1]
The CVP has a significant amount of facilities for storing and transporting water on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, in the foothills of the California Coast Ranges. The West San Joaquin Division and San Luis Unit consist of several major facilities that are shared with the federal California State Water Project (SWP). [589]
Serving 38,000 acres of farmland in Fresno and Merced counties, the Panoche Water District is headquartered on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley in the hard-working farm town of Firebaugh ...
One of those areas is the Tulare Basin in the southern San Joaquin Valley, an area that has no outlet to the ocean. Instead, the water travels to what was once Tulare Lake -- where now small towns ...