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31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
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 by Doug Obegi
Amidst everything going on in the world these days, it’s easy to miss that the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Met) is in the process of setting the course for Southern California’s water future, through a process called the [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
Given the trail of environmental degradation, unlawful agency action, and scientific misconduct left in the wake of decision-making by the Trump Administration and In [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
After years of exclusionary backroom negotiations over Bay-Delta voluntary agreements, earlier this week the State made a ham-fisted attempt to greenwash these proposed voluntary agreements, sending [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
The Trump Administration’s efforts to enlarge Shasta Dam was always a bad idea. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
The current drought is highlighting many ways in which California’s water rights system is inequitable and poorly managed, but it doesn’t have to be that way. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
It’s been a bad several months for the Trump Administration’s efforts to weaken and eliminate protections for Endangered Species in California’s Bay-Delta watershed. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
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 by Doug Obegi
Yesterday, attorneys for the State Water Contractors filed a motion to intervene in litigation challenging the Trump Administration’s recent biological opinions in the Bay-Delta. [read post]
25 Apr 2023, 2:11 pm by Doug Obegi
Delta Tunnel Project Would Not Have Increased Water Supply in 2023 [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
After spending the past several months reviewing the Bureau of Reclamation’s biological assessment (BA) for the Trump Administration’s rewrite of the 2008 and 2009 biological opinions protecting Delta Smelt and salmon in the Bay-Delta watershed, [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
In addition to misleading attacks on environmental protections in the Bay-Delta, there has also been a lot of misinformation about permitting water infrastructure in California. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
While the State’s newest proposal for voluntary agreements in the Bay-Delta leaves a lot of unanswered questions, the initial analysis reveals a deeply troubling direction. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
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 by Doug Obegi
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 by Doug Obegi
In recent weeks, there have been howls of protest aimed at the California Water Commission from the proponents of big new dams like Temperance Flat and Sites Reservoir, because the Commission rigorou [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
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 by Doug Obegi
California’s ongoing drought – or more accurately, our new normal in light of the reality of climate change – demonstrates that California’s water system is effectively bankrupt and broken, the result of having promised far more water ( [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
Did you know that the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission ("SFPUC") has been working with the Trump Administration to try to stop the State of California’s efforts to restore the health of the Tuolumne River? [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
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]