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Hood, California, is a farming town of 200 souls, crammed up against a levee that protects it from the Sacramento River. The eastern approach from I-5 and the Sacramento suburb of Elk Grove is bucolic. Cows graze. An abandoned railroad track sits atop...

Susie Cagle | Longreads | June 2015 | 21 minutes (5,160 words) The sun was going down in East Porterville, California, diffusing gold through a thick and creamy fog, as Donna Johnson pulled into the parking lot in front of the Family Dollar. Since...

The year 2015 will become infamous as the one when many California fish populations reached record low levels, largely due to poor water management by the state and federal governments. The Bureau of Reclamation and Department of Water Resources continued...

The Associated Press reports that California will move on Friday to restrict century-old water rights in the agriculturally-focused Central Valley, a step considered by many to be unthinkable as recently as last year. Regulators said the first orders...

Earlier this year, with the effects of a multi-year draught becoming even more serious, California Governor Jerry Brown (D) ordered cities and towns to cut water use by 25 percent. The State Water Resources Control Board later approved rules encouraging...