Although letting your lawn go brown is encouraged, trees can quickly become stressed or die when irrigation is
reduced or stopped altogether.

The State Water Resources Control Board and the Santa Clara Valley Water District adopted tough restrictions on water use, as California grapples with a new normal climate that’s drier and hotter.

The lawsuit settled this month by Valley Water with more than 200 property owners along Coyote Creek stemmed from a February 2017 flood when the Anderson Dam in Morgan Hill overflowed, forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents in South San Jose.

The U.S. Drought Monitor report from May 3 shows 92% of California in a severe drought and about 40% of the state experiencing extreme drought conditions. 

Gary Kremen, founder of Match.com, promised to return $71,000 in campaign contributions from his assessor campaign, but said he wants to keep his seat on the Santa Clara Valley Water District board of directors.

Over the last few years—and especially during the Covid-19 pandemic—Santa Clara County's Coyote Creek watershed has become an inflection point for how the South Bay must address issues surrounding its homelessness crisis and the environmental impact of creekside encampments.

The water shortage emergency hopes to reduce water use countywide by 15% of 2019 levels.

Santa Clara County Assessor Lawrence Stone announced that his right-hand-man, David Ginsborg, will retire on July 1 after 24 years, just as Stone gears up for a contested reelection campaign.

Starting July 1, the average county resident will pay an additional $4.30 to $4.82 per month in their water bill. 

In the most expensive race in the Santa Clara Valley Water District's history, Sex.com founder Gary Kremen edged out incumbent Brian Schmidt by by a 3-percentage point lead.

Unless the Valley Water board rejects the request for “an endless tax,” voters should reject the agency’s parcel tax measure this fall.

Critics accused Barbara Keegan and Linda LeZotte of racism and leaking confidential information—charges they both firmly deny.

The radar atop the Penitencia Water Treatment Plant in San Jose is the cornerstone in a network of high-res, low-elevation radars.

Once Valley Water hears from the community, its team will refine the proposed solutions and present a preferred alternative to the Board of Directors.

The governor announced his pick of Teresa Alvarado, the San Jose director of SPUR since 2016, in a news release this week.

After nearly three days of rainfall drenched the South County hillsides, Uvas Reservoir began pouring over its emergency spillway.