This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. After decades of deterioration and ecological collapse in the heart of California’s water system, state regulators ...

The California Water Wars. Owens Lake was ultimately dried out entirely between 1913 and 1934, but not before dramatic, sometimes violent pushback from residents.

Southern California’s two largest water agencies announced Monday that they have settled a 15-year legal dispute over the price of water transferred between them.

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.

SACRAMENTO, California — The chinook salmon has upset a quiet truce in the California water wars between Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Donald Trump. Last week, ...

SACRAMENTO, California — The Chinook salmon has upset a quiet truce in the California water wars between Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Donald Trump. Last week when the winter-run Chinook got ...

However, there’s also friction between California, whose supply of Colorado River water is mostly used for irrigating crops in the Imperial Valley, and Nevada and Arizona, whose populations have ...

This is the true cost of thinking about California water as a war: It turns communities into abstract pawns. On one of my last mornings in the Delta last summer, I toured the Jones Pumping Plant ...