irrigation

This creek turned irrigation canal is named for early Fresno-area rancher John Fancher.

This man-made reservoir on the edge of the UC Merced campus has a history that takes back to the 1880s.

Water diversions from the Kings River made Fresno's early growth possible. When a court case upended those water rights, developer Edward B. Perrin bought the Laguna de Tache ranch, and its water.

This Mexican-era land grant along the Kings River is an important chapter in the history of the Central Valley.

Small farmers in the Central Valley operate on thin margins even in good years, and now they are also grappling with drought, wildfire and the recovery…

“Fish vs farms”: It’s the perennial tug-of-war for water between environmentalists, who want to see stable ecosystems in the Sacramento-San-Joaquin River…

The California State Water Resources Control Board is responding to the drought by proposing to change the permitting process for recycled water…