Former California Water Official Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Steal Water From Irrigation Canal usnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from usnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Panoche Water District allegedly stole 130,000 acre feet of water and redistributed it to farmland across Fresno and Merced counties. Now the feds want retribution but not everyone in the region agrees.
You might say the story of an alleged water heist described in the Los Angeles Times is so audacious it's made for Hollywood—except Chinatown pretty much already.
Prosecutors say a local water official orchestrated a decades-long scheme to steal from the Central Valley Project. Some see him as a hydrologic Robin Hood.