California Overspends Water Rights by 300 Million Acre Feet
UC Merced Professor Joshua Viers and postdoctoral researcher Ted Grantham, with UC Davis at the time, explored the state's database of water-rights allocations, and found that allocations in California exceed the state's actual water supply by five …
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Water rights: Science does not justify compact
It is easy to see from the televised technical working group studies conducted over the summer that the “science” behind the compact's irrigation water use agreement was found to be substantially lacking in accuracy. Some of the findings of this summer …
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Groundwater regulation, water rights reform is critical
Last week, two University of California researchers published a study finding that just since 1914, California has allocated water rights equal to five times the 70 million acre-feet of annual runoff from precipitation, mostly to federal, state and …
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