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Westlands Water District, a sprawling Central Valley farm district with ties to the Trump administration, is poised to get a permanent contract for a massive quantity of cheap federal irrigation ...
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 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 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 Westlands Water District has engaged in some sleazy maneuvers over the years, but this one, which threatens the Bay Area’s water supply, tops them all. The Trump administration, led by ...
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 ...
The nation's largest irrigation district agreed to spend $3.5 billion to clean up contaminated water in California's fertile Central Valley in a tentative deal announced Tuesday that will settle a ...
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 ...