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3 May 2023, 1:14 pm
While it may not be an outlier, the absurdity of the Triangle T Water District is a great example of why people say that in California, water flows uphill towards money. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
As today’s Los Angeles Times reports, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) and other water districts that obtain water from the State Water Project and federal [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
The Biden Administration has an opportunity later this year to begin the process of reforming one of the most unreasonable water contracts in California: the San Joaquin River Exchange Contract. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
For several years, state and federal agencies, local water districts, and a few conservation groups have participated in negotiations regarding potential voluntary settlements on Delta flows. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
The Bureau of Reclamation and Department of Water Resources plan to allocate approximately 5 million acre feet of water this year – as long as California allows them to effectively drain the two largest reservoirs in the state, potentially killing most or nearly all the endangered winter-run Chin [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
After 10 years and multiple rounds of public hearings, the State Water Resources Control Board announced yesterday that it would postpone voting on whether to adopt new flow and water quality standards for the lower San Joaquin River and the Stanislaus, Tuolumne, and Merced rivers. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
With governments around the world racing to address our current crisis, it seems profoundly strange to write about anything but the challenge of meeting this global threat that is disrupting our lives and threatening our families and loved ones. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
If next year is dry in California, modeling from the Bureau of Reclamation (linked here, dated July 6, 2021) shows that Shasta Reservoir would store nearly 750,000 acre feet less water in April 2022 [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
With the planned operations of the federal Central Valley Project and State Water Project threatening to cause the extinction of winter-run salmon and Delta Smelt if drought continues in 2022, as well as causing devastating impacts to other salmon runs and the Tribes, fishing fleet, and communiti [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
Today, the State of California announced that they are withdrawing the permits and applications for the California WaterFix project and taking a fresh look at designing a single Delta tunnel project. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
In the middle of a pandemic, an economic recession, and everything else that 2020 is throwing at us, in early August the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) filed a lawsu [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
Rather than planning for droughts and ensuring that minimum water quality objectives are achieved in critically dry years, the proposed voluntary agreement appears to be a “plan to fail” to protect the Delta in future droughts. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
While the California Department of Water Resources’ initial water supply allocation for the State Water Project is ostensibly only 5%, this allocation is a lot more water than it initially appears (more than 1.4 million acre feet of water) – and almost certainly more water than DWR can sustainabl [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
It’s becoming clear that the voluntary settlement agreements presented to the State Water Board last December as part of the so-called “grand bargain” were nothing more than smoke and mirrors [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
Thankfully, there is a growing recognition of the need to reform California’s water rights system, which is [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
This fall, as the Trump Administration escalates its attacks on California’s environmental protections, Governor Newsom’s team will face difficult tests regarding California water. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
Tomorrow the California Water Commission will publicly release its initial reviews of the 11 remaining applications submitted by water storage projects seeking funding from the 2014 water bond (Proposition 1). [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
On Friday, a coalition of conservation groups, fishing organizations, stakeholders in the Delta, and the Winnemem Wintu Tribe sent this letter to the Biden Administration, ur [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
After 10 years of study and extensive public outreach, the State Water Resources Control Board is scheduled to vote Wednesday to adopt new flow and water quality standa [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
Since the State Water Resources Control Board began its public process to update the Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan in 2008, the amount of water proposed for the Bay-Delta environment has continuously shrunk due to political pressure from those who profit from the destruction of the Delta. [read post]
