In a social media post days after the election, President-elect Donald Trump made clear that California’s water wars are top of his ... Related: Map shows which California demographic shifted ...

That’s just the nature of California politics. The real question is where her successor will stand on the state’s water wars. They may be down to a simmer now thanks to a wet winter ...

President Trump has signed an order directing federal agencies to “maximize” water deliveries in California and “override” state policies if necessary. Trump’s executive order outlines ...

Dec. 14, 2023 The story of California’s water wars begins, as so many stories do in the Golden State, with gold. The prospectors who raced westward after 1848 scoured fortunes out of ...

low-reward century-old water wars — and did — because only a small voting bloc in the Central Valley really made them a priority. As California’s attorney general, she oversaw routine ...

Michael Short Bloomberg For decades, California’s water debates have centered on a familiar tension: agriculture versus urban consumption. Agriculture, which consumes 80% of the state’s ...

It was the largest American civil engineering disaster of the century – a byproduct of western expansion and the struggle known as the California Water Wars, which pitted the public against ...

California’s water wars aren’t about scarcity. Even with 37 million people and the nation’s most irrigation-intensive agriculture, the state usually has enough water for both people and crops, thanks ...