Monterey County Water Articles

The Salinas Valley is said to feed the world, but being a fertile powerhouse depends on access to water, an increasingly scarce resource whose future could come down to decisions made in the next few years.

California’s outdated water rights laws have failed to account for the effects of climate change, says a new expert report, which makes some strong recommendations.

Third time does the harm.

California is poised to have a record budget this year and tucked into Gov. Gavin Newsom’s $286.4 billion spending proposal for fiscal year 2022-23 is about $21 billion in extra cash that will be up for grabs. Monterey County is…

Maybe you’ve been wondering why Gen. Jim Moore Boulevard is being torn up right now, and what’s up with the massive pipe sections being staged on its median. The answer to both of those questions is at least in part…

It was the driest of winters, followed by the wettest of winters. For the Central Coast, the last two years have been a tale of two La Niñas, the irregular weather phenomenon associated with cold oceans and dry air.

Monterey County Weekly Editor Sara Rubin slams board’s rejection of Measure J, passed by voters in 2018.

Monterey Peninsula residents in 2018 voted with a more than 55 percent majority to initiate a public buyout of investor-owned water utility California American Water. On Dec. 6, an arcane local government board went against their own staff’s recommendation and…

Community service districts can do most anything a city government can do. Here’s how they work and how to start one.

Plans on how to manage the Salinas Valley’s spine of underground aquifers—the lifeblood of the agricultural region—are approaching completion.

Should water be owned by the public, or can private interests do a better job of delivering precious water? That conflict is at the heart of Monterey County’s water system.

The city of Seaside hosted a week-long charrette that asked the community one main question: What development would they like to see on a 625-acre parcel east of Gen. Jim Moore Boulevard?

MC Weekly reporter Christopher Neely untangles the region’s water issues, detailing a quarter-century of failed projects and broken alliances.

Before the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District can act on the will of a majority of Peninsula voters and make an offer to buy out the local assets of private utility California American Water, an arcane government agency has to …

What do resource conservation districts protect? Pretty much everything that’s worth saving.

Residential wells are drying up in the state’s main agricultural region at the same time that agricultural businesses consume almost 90 percent of the water there.

This year, an estimated 60,000 birds have been poisoned by botulism in one of the oldest waterfowl conservation reserves in the state.

Noise pollution and a drought-driven shortage of salmon have led the federal government to expand the Monterey Bay protected habitat zone for killer whales.

As fire, heat waves and drought threaten the state’s water and power supplies, the governor calls for consumers to cut back on use.