The Los Angeles Times' Bettina Boxall takes a look at the planned restoration of the San Joaquin River that is set to get started this week with initial releases of water from the Friant Dam above Fresno:

Something is about to happen on California's second-longest river that hasn't happened this time of year since Harry Truman was president. Water is going to start flowing down two stretches of the San Joaquin that have been sucked dry since Friant Dam began diverting most of the river into two giant irrigation canals.