Owens Valley Committee

05/26/2026

Never forget that LADWP considers our water as their “LOCAL” water.

“At the same time, water imported from the northern Sierra and the Colorado River provides the foundation of water supply reliability for Southern California,” said Shivaji Deshmukh, the MWD’s general manager.”

In a new plan, environmental groups call for a "water renaissance" in California, saying the state needs to invest much more in local water.

05/10/2026

https://sjvwater.org/water-a-big-question-for-proposed-ai-data-center-in-eastern-kern-desert/

Assurances that a “highly efficient hybrid cooling system” will keep a proposed AI data center from sucking up all the water in the already overdrafted

01/30/2026

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10/27/2025

09/07/2025

For more than two decades, satellites have tracked the total amounts of water held in glaciers, ice sheets, lakes, rivers, soil and the world’s vast natural reservoirs underground — aquifers. An extensive global analysis of that data now reveals fresh water is rapidly disappearing beneath much o...

06/13/2025

As we drove north along Highway 395 — passing the salty remains of Owens Lake, the Museum of Western Film History, the geothermal plant outside Mammoth Lakes that supplies 24/7 clean energy to San Bernardino County — I felt certain we’d found the northernmost reaches of Southern California.

09/05/2024

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07/03/2024

It was fiction, but enough truth in it to shine a light on the situation in the Owens Valley.

Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Chinatown," died at his home in Los Angeles. He was 89.

06/20/2024

https://mavensnotebook.com/2024/06/19/sjv-water-kern-pistachio-farmer-ordered-to-pay-30-million-in-back-fees-to-high-desert-groundwater-agency/

By Lois Henry, SJV Water An Orange County court on Friday approved an injunction mandating that Mojave Pistachios LLC pay $30 million in back fees owed to th

06/16/2024

Several tribes in Owens Valley in the eastern Sierra Nevada see hope in small property transfers that have become part of a growing “Land Back” movement.