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FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA California Gov. Gavin Newsom holds a news conference at Universal Studios in Universal City, Calif., on June 15, 2021, as part of California's full reopening. (Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Newsom asks all Californians to voluntarily reduce water usage by 15% amid drought SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking Californians to voluntarily cut back on household water consumption by 15% compared to last year as drought conditions worsen and temperatures continue to rise across the state and the western United States. The governor on Thursday also expand...

California Trout, is a conservation non-profit that works to protect the state’s wild rivers and fish.

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Driving into Klamath Falls from the north, it’s not immediately apparent that southern Oregon is in the grip of a severe drought.

A fast-spreading disease is killing nearly all of the juvenile salmon on the Klamath River. The climate crisis looks different in different places but on the Klamath River, it looks like scores of baby salmon floating dead in the shallows. With the Klamath Basin facing historic drought conditions, a crisis is unfolding in slow motion, day by day, on multiple fronts as the various entities that depend on Klamath water vie for what little there is of it. "No one is winning in the Klamath Basin and what we hold sacred is being sacrificed across the board," Yurok Tribe Vice Chair Frankie Myers tw...

Once again the Klamath River Basin is in a "water crisis." With not enough water to fulfill all needs and demands, irrigators, federal tribes and fishermen are all clamoring for more water and for "emergency disaster assistance" from the federal government. In the middle are the federal and state agencies charged with meeting competing needs of threatened and endangered fish, water rights law and irrigator demands. Meanwhile the organization People's Rights has called for irrigators to “STAND UP AND PROTECT YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY, YOUR WATER!” According to a report from The Counter, ...