9.10.14: Click link below to hear AquAlliance water policy analyst Jim Brobeck’s interview with California water rights lawyer Michael Jackson. Jackson represents the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) and the California Water Impact Network (C-WIN). He serves on the steering committee … Continue reading
9.7.14: Chico Enterprise-Record The package of bills passed by the Legislature Aug. 29 to regulate California groundwater usage were called the biggest change in water law in our lifetimes by Butte County’s top water official. And there’s not a bit … Continue reading
Locals will be required to manage groundwater, and if not the state steps in By Heather Hacking, Chico Enterprise-Record hhacking@chicoer.com @HeatherHacking on Twitter 8.30.14: SACRAMENTO >> The wild west of groundwater law is about to change in California. Friday the … Continue reading
Excellent news for the Northstate! The blistering comments attacking the environmental review for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) have forced the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) to regroup and delay approvals for building the massive Twin Tunnels and extracting … Continue reading
The Colorado River Basin lost nearly 53 million acre feet of freshwater over the past nine years, according to a new study based on data from NASA’s GRACE mission. The new study by NASA and University of California, Irvine, scientists finds … Continue reading
Check it out! AquAlliance has its first billboard and it may be seen on the west side of Hwy 99 south of the Hwy 149 interchange before the rice fields. Thanks so much to the generosity of Linda and Gary … Continue reading
AquAlliance sued the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation again over their inadequate environmental review of the Bureau’s ‘temporary,’ North-to-South water transfers that take place year-after-year. While we lost the injunction that sought to halt the transfers,* AquAlliance and our litigation partner, … Continue reading
Deference to Federal Agencies Prevails… Judge Lawrence O’Neill of the federal district court in Fresno denied the preliminary injunction sought by AquAlliance and the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance to stop the federal 2014 water transfers from the Sacramento Valley. His … Continue reading
7.2.14 – SF Gate by Garance Burke, Associated Press Throughout California’s desperately dry Central Valley, those with water to spare are cashing in. As a third parched summer forces farmers to fallow fields and lay off workers, two water districts … Continue reading
Click to view: Full text of Press Release Complaint document On 10 June 2014, AquAlliance and the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) filed a lawsuit in federal District Court against the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation USBR over its inadequate disclosure, … Continue reading
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