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31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
Will the Biden Administration act before October 17th to begin renegotiating one of the most inequitable and unsustainable water contracts in California, the San Joaquin River Exchange Contract? [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
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
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
Not only does the proposed Bay-Delta voluntary agreement wholly fail to provide the water [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
On Thursday (11/21) we may find out whether the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) is proposing operations of the State Water Project that are significantly more protective than the Trump Administration’s biological opinions, or whether DWR will be aligning with the Trump Administrati [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
Updated water supply allocations announced last week would still drain upstream reservoirs in order to deliver 4.5 million acre feet of water to th [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
Governor Newsom issued an Executive Order this week that legalizes the State Water Board’s waiver of minimum water quality objectives in the Bay-Delta and pressures the State Water B [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
Earlier this week, the Department of Water Resources released an “Economic Analysis of Stage I of the California WaterFix” prepared by Dr. [read post]
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]
