Presented at the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) Drought Workshop February 18-19, 2014 By: California Water Impact Network (C-WIN) California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) AquAlliance The public workshop’s purpose was to receive input on its drought-related activities affecting water … Continue reading
2.14.14 | By Carolyn Lochhead: White House science adviser John Holdren, a Stanford-trained physicist who taught at UC Berkeley and has studied the effects of environmental change for much of his career, says President Obama will address climate change in … Continue reading
USDA will provide up to $100 million in livestock disaster assistance, additional $10 million for water conservation. Fresno, CA, 2.14.14 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack joined President Barack Obama in Fresno, Calif., today to announce that the U.S. Department of … Continue reading
North State water supplies under pressure as drought parches California By Alastair Bland Chico News & Review, February 13, 2014 A thousand feet beneath the city of Chico, in the pitch-black waters of the Tuscan Aquifer, time has proceeded for … Continue reading
Two illustrated reports give a good background on the current status of groundwater conditions, including maps that show a steady downward trend in aquifer levels over the past 10 years. October 17, 2013 Groundwater Conditions in the Northern Sacramento Valley … Continue reading
Californian.com January 10, 2014 Water tables have been dropping sharply in places across California as farms and expanding suburbs pump vast quantities of water during successive dry years, taking a heavy toll on many of the state’s aquifers. Measurements of … Continue reading
Published on Jun 3, 2013 Jason Peltier of the Westlands Water District tells a couple of California Senate Committees about Westlands collaborative, conciliatory, cooperative, compromising attitude about the so-called Bay Delta Conservation Plan: Click photo to view video.
By Wayne Kirkbride Modesto Bee January 13, 2014 TWAIN HARTE – Here in the Sierra where I live, the snowfall we experienced in early December gave us hope that a normal snowpack would mean an end to the below-average precipitation … Continue reading
12.9.13 – By Heather Hacking, Chico Enterprise-Record — The environmental reports for plans for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan were released Monday, beginning a new flurry of debate.The $24.7 billion plan, seven years in the making, includes Gov. Jerry Brown’s … Continue reading
12.9.13: Opposition is Strong, Financing Weak – AquAlliance and colleagues around California oppose Governor Jerry Brown’s attempts to construct two Peripheral Tunnels, which are housed in the long-awaited draft Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report (EIS/EIR) released today for the Bay … Continue reading
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