2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (742+ words) California’s landscape is primarily flat with repetitive farmland for much of northbound Interstate 5 until the Pit River Bridge, when a steely overpass grants a fleeting but impressionable view of Shasta Lake. The Pit River Bridge is seen over Lake Shasta…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (702+ words) The Trump administration on Friday approved plans to build Sites Reservoir, a massive new off-stream lake north of Sacramento that would supply water to 24 million Californians and hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation issued a…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (731+ words) The potential site of the water tunnel center intake on the Sacramento River near Courtland, Calif., shown in March 2020. The U.S. Department of the Interior approved a major California water project on Friday, clearing a key obstacle for a massive new…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (608+ words) A $1 billion plan to raise the height of the dam at one of California’s largest reservoirs, San Luis Reservoir between Gilroy and Los Banos, to provide more water to Santa Clara County and parts of the Central Valley during droughts,…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (338+ words) PHILLIPS STATION — California is seeing ample rain and water stored in the state’s reservoirs but only about half the snow levels of a year ago, officials said Tuesday, adding it’s too soon to know how that could impact water supplies…...

9+ mon, 1+ day ago   (605+ words) From the onset of his foray into presidential politics a decade ago, Donald Trump has been obsessed with managing California’s water, often interjecting himself into decades-long conflicts over how the precious commodity should be divvied up. During his first stint…...