Westlands Water District is the nation’s largest agricultural water district, with customers owning 600,000 acres of farmland in Fresno and Kings counties in California’s Central Valley. View maps showing Westlands ownership of parcels in the Central Valley: Westlands Parcel Ownership Map – … Continue reading
11.14.14 — Butte County Board of Supervisors draft comments on the draft Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report (EIS/EIR) on a proposed Long Term Water Transfers Program: “Based on our preliminary view, we believe that the EIS/EIR is seriously flawed and … Continue reading
Proposition 1 provides a series of benefits and detriments to different constituents much as a legislative bill. It is nonsensical to ask for a simple yes or no vote on a proposition with many complex and contradictory parts. The legislators … Continue reading
Click here to view the Executive Summary of the Long-Term Water Transfers Environmental Impact Summary/Environmental Impact Report Prepared by: US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Mid-Pacific Region, Sacramento, CA San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority, Los Banos, CA September … Continue reading
What the NorthState gained from AquAlliance’s water transfer lawsuit this year has been released: the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s 10-Year Water Transfer Plan’s Environmental Impact Statement/Report (EIS/EIR). This form of environmental review requires more analysis and disclosure of impacts for a … 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
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
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
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