By Susan Shelley | Los Angeles Daily News Published August 29, 2018 at 11:26 am On Thursday, August 30, at 8:00 a.m., an obscure committee in Sacramento will hold an informational hearing that will commit you, your children and your grandchildren to … Continue reading
From California Water Impact Network — Click here to view full article and links to other stories and documents. Brown Administration Plan Would Force Homeowners to Pay for Unneeded Water Project As the old adage has it, “You pays your money … Continue reading
By Alec Wilkinson, Esquire Magazine, 8.23.18 For eons, the earth has had the same amount of water—no more, no less. What the ancient Romans used for crops and Nefertiti drank? It’s the same stuff we bathe with. Yet with more … Continue reading
By Evan Tuchinsky March 8, 2018 Eight years ago, Barbara Vlamis launched AquAlliance, a Chico-based nonprofit that, according to its website, “formed to challenge threats to the hydrologic health of the northern Sacramento River watershed.” Vlamis, who’d spent the previous 17 … Continue reading
2.12.18: On the anniversary of the Oroville Dam disaster, Sacramento Valley citizens of all political stripes have retained a deep distrust of the California Department of Water Resources. This article from the Sacramento Bee describes the scenario that came close … Continue reading
The federal district court in Fresno issued a strong order February 15, 2018 supporting many of the claims made by AquAlliance and co-plaintiff partners. The lawsuit was filed in May 2015 against the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) and San … Continue reading
January 5, 2018 By Dale Kasler & Ryan Sabalow dkasler@sacbee.com The forensic team investigating the February emergency at Oroville Dam blasted the California Department of Water Resources on Friday, saying the dam’s owner and operator did a poor job of … Continue reading
Vernal Pool Landscapes: Past, Present, and Future is a conference that will be held in Chico, California on Wednesday and Thursday, April 11th and 12th, 2018 at the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico.[1] Eminent scholars, agency representatives, and other professionals … Continue reading
9.8.17: The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation failed to reveal significant funding for the Twin Tunnels. The Office of the Inspector General for the Interior Department stated that, “…USBR did not disclose the full cost of its participation in the BDCP, … Continue reading
It took a few months, but the state Department of Water Resources finally admitted to poor communication in the wake of the Lake Oroville spillway disaster. Now the state agency is back to its old ways — if it ever … Continue reading
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