Author: Chris White

The Exchange Contractors have been deeply intertwined with our local communities, going back generations to the early days of working alongside towns and organizations on water resource management to more recent efforts in...

The severe droughts we have seen in recent years were yet another reminder of how critical it is to continually invest in new infrastructure to capture and store water to prepare for future dry years. At the same time, we also...

As the Executive Director of the San Joaquin River Exchange Contractors Water Authority, I want to provide an update on recent developments concerning our region’s Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSPs) and our efforts to...

In California, our weather patterns can quickly shift from one extreme to another.  Just look at the last 10 years.  We’ve had five dry years—2014, 2015, 2020, 2021 and 2022—where the state and federal water supply...

The Central Valley and the western United States continue to face a significant drought, and we can expect more dry years in the future. It is critical that we come together to find solutions to this problem. At the same time,...