SACRAMENTO — California’s weather patterns certainly have been unusual this winter, with the Sierra snowpack hitting record levels, massive flooding throughout the valleys, and slight smatterings of snow landing in such snow-averse places as Orange County. OK, some of my…

One way to get a handle on the Colorado River crisis is via historical comparison, the past and the present, then and now. Then would be 1922, when the Colorado River Compact, the current river-use agreement, was negotiated. The population…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An unusually severe winter storm inundated California last month, bringing more water in a few weeks than the state sometimes receives in a year. The biggest water problem in my region was, quite obviously, too much of…