San Diego County / Southern California

Much of the rain that fell on Southern California last week flowed to the Pacific Ocean, but a good amount was captured by local water agencies to help replenish the region’s local water supply. With California entering what may be its fifth year of drought, water agencies are moving to capture and store more.   […]

Keeping California’s agricultural land in production depends on fixing its growing water problems.   As the state considers its options, many farmers want to revive the approach that worked for them in the last century: building dams. Not far from this tiny hamlet northeast of Fresno, for instance, the government is thinking of building a […]