Accusations that one wealthy couple, Stewart and Lynda Resnick, have been hoarding water needed to fight the Southern California wildfires have been spreading widely online. While the Resnicks do own ...

The owners of the privately held agricultural business, Wonderful Co., do not own most of California’s water. Through the Wonderful Co., Stewart and Lynda Resnick have a majority stake in a water bank ...

Note: in the print edition of this issue, this article appears as a sidebar to another news article, “The public pays to keep water in a river.” For four years, farmers on the California-Oregon border ...

Congress did not fund such projects so that the government could own and control western water. The Colorado River Storage Project Act of 1956 authorized the Aspinall Unit (including Blue Mesa), named ...

One of the questions that I often get is “Who actually owns the water?” While that should be a relatively easy question, believe me there is nothing easy about it. The simple answer is, at least when ...