Where we are, where we may go and how we disagree By Heather Hacking – 05/24/2014 – Chico Enterprise-Record Water rights, water transfers and water reports were among the topics of a forum Thursday night in Chico that included an update … Continue reading
Sacramento Bee, May 25, 2014 by Mariel Garza JOIN THE CONVERSATION: Should groundwater be regulated by local agencies or by the state? Or, should groundwater remain unregulated? To write a letter to the editor of the Sacramento Bee, please … Continue reading
Chico Enterprise-Record 5.14.14: Whether you are a farmer or an environmentalist, love gardening or hunting, are conservative or liberal, are an atheist or Catholic, we all have something in common. We live in a beautiful area that is made so … Continue reading
Butte County’s Ground and Surface Water ~~ Spring 2014 Update Butte County, the City of Chico, and AquAlliance will host a forum on May 22, 2014 to provide public with an update on state local ground water monitoring, surface water supplies, … Continue reading
Help us stop the June water transfers! We need to act now or 195,000 acre-feet of our NorthState water will head south. The US Bureau of Reclamation intends to send NorthState water to desert growers south of the Delta who signed … Continue reading
Last year, as California endured one of its driest years on record, the Westlands Water District made it rain 3,000 miles away — on Capitol Hill. The nation’s largest agricultural water district, located in the Central Valley, spent $600,000 on … Continue reading
3.24.14 — SF Gate, by Carolyn Lochhead: Even before the drought, the southern San Joaquin Valley was in big trouble. Decades of irrigation have leached salts and toxic minerals from the soil that have nowhere to go, threatening crops and wildlife. … Continue reading
BERKELEY, CA, By Ben Tracy, CBS News, March 6, 2014 — Government forecasters predicted Thursday that the weather system known as El Nino could return this year. It could bring much-needed rain to the West. Ninety-five percent of California is … Continue reading
With a third dry year in a row, the California drought highlights the serious challenges we face in sustainable water use in the western United States as a whole. It is dry by all measures: the amount of precipitation, of … Continue reading
Feb. 20, 2014 — New York Times,The Opinion Pages By Timothy Egan, Contributing Op-Ed Writer The bathtub rings in the reservoirs that hold California’s liquid life have never been more exposed. Shorelines are bare, brown and bony. Much of the Sierra Nevada … Continue reading
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