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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]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
Not only does the proposed Bay-Delta voluntary agreement wholly fail to provide the water [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
Scientists and conservation groups including NRDC have been warning for years that farms and cities in California need to plan to divert less water from the Bay-Delta watershed, and the 2009 enactment of the Delta Reform Act established that it is State policy to reduce reliance on water supplies [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
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 by Doug Obegi
During a campaign stop in Arizona last week, President Trump issued a memorandum outlining steps that the Federal Government will take to attack environmental prote [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
While many had hoped that the huge storms in October and December would bring an end to California’s drought, it was always going to take a lot more rain and snow to make up for the deficit after several dry years (as wonderfully illustrated in the [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
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 by Doug Obegi
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 by Doug Obegi
On October 22 the Trump Administration is expected to release new Endangered Species Act permits, known as biological opinions, that are almost certain to significantly weaken and/or eliminate existing federal protections for salmon and other endangered species in California’s Bay-Delta watershed [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
Why does the Department of Water Resources’ draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the proposed Delta tunnel project refuse to consider any operational alternatives that increase flows into and through the Delta to protect salmon and the environment? [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
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 by Doug Obegi
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 by Doug Obegi
On October 1, the Bureau of Reclamation formally began the multi-year process to replace the Trump Administration’s blatantly unlawful biological opinions for the operation of the State Water Project and federal Central Valley Project in California’s Bay-Delta watershed by requesting what is know [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm by Doug Obegi
The House Interior Appropriations Committee, led by Rep. [read post]