The makeup of the Westlands Water District board will change this election — shifting power to a coalition of growers with a list of new actions, at the top of which appears to be ousting ...

The makeup of the Westlands Water District board will change this election — shifting power to a coalition of growers with a list of new actions, at the top of which appears to be ousting ...

Westlands Water District has removed 452 acres of almond orchards thanks to a $1 million grant from the state Department of Water Resources (DWR.) It’s one project in an ongoing list aimed at ...

The Westlands Water District occupies a 75-by-15-mile swath of the San Joaquin Valley. In college, he said, "I became very adept at drawing a map of California, because people would say, ...

The powerful, and politically right-leaning Westlands Water District recently teamed up with left-leaning democratic assemblymember Esmeralda Soria on renewable energy. Her bill, AB 2661, was ...

Water scarcity in Westlands Water District has caused some almond growers to tear out their older orchards. Dan Charles. Late in the afternoon on November 14, a historic email landed in the ...

Westlands Water District was formed to distribute that water to 600,000 acres of land. Mark Arax, a writer who has chronicled the rise of Central Valley agriculture, calls it an act of "pure ...

REBRAND FOR WESTLANDS — For 22 years, Tom Birmingham served as general manager of the Westlands Water District, aggressively lobbying for farmers’ water access and making enemies of ...

We chatted in the water district’s well-worn conference room under a map showing the 29 water agencies, including Westlands, served by the San Luis Reservoir.

Late in the afternoon on November 14, a historic email landed in the inboxes of hundreds of California farmers whose land lies within the Westlands Water District, the largest agricultural ...

For years, powerful farmers in California's Central Valley fought for more water from the state's rivers. Now some are changing course, because there's no more water to be found.