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Wet weather returned to California on Thursday with the first in a new series of rainstorms moving across the northern half of the state while the south awaited a storm that forecasters said could be the strongest in years if not decades. Rain, accompanied...

The following article appeared last August in the CounterPunch print edition, Volume 21, Number 7. “Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over.” – Mark Twain It doesn’t take long once you’ve left the greater Los Angeles area, away from all...

photo: GPS stations such as this one, P311 in the eastern Sierra Nevada, are administered by the EarthScope Plate Boundary Observatory. Photo courtesy of UNAVCO. Depletion of groundwater in the San Joaquin Valley is having wide-ranging effects not just...

By Dan Bacher for IndyMedia The city of Sacramento is in the fourth year of a record drought – yet the Nestlé Corporation continues to bottle city water to sell back to the public at a big profit, local activists charge. The Nestlé Water Bottling Plant...

FLASH Flood Watch IN EFFECT FOR THE Auxiliary SPILLWAY AT OROVILLE DAM IN BUTTE COUNTY CA... The National Weather Service in Sacramento CA has downgraded the Flash Flood Warning to a Flash Flood Watch for the Auxiliary Spillway of Oroville Dam in Butte...