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California has more than 1,000 thousand miles of coastline and the water in the Pacific Ocean presents an opportunity for more fresh water in the state.

Senior water rights holders have arguably the sweetest deal in California water. They often have ironclad deals and some even get access to substantial water during the worst of drought.  But three new bills in

Bills advancing in the California Legislature would expand water regulators' authority to investigate the state's oldest water rights and penalize violators.

For the first time in several decades, policy makers in Sacramento seem poised to actually do something about California’s dysfunctional water rights systems.

To understand why today’s water rights are so convoluted and steeped in bigotry, we must go back in time to more than a century ago.

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Researchers say public perception of the risks climate change poses to our water supply are key to how governments will act to secure water for the future.

LOS ANGELES -- With torrential rains drenching California, state water regulators have endorsed a plan to divert floodwaters from the San Joaquin River to replenish groundwater that has been depleted by heavy agricultural pumping during three years of record drought.

California has approved a plan to use more than 600,000 acre-feet of floodwaters to replenish groundwater and supply wildlife refuges in the Central Valley.