This year, I am soliciting special guest commentaries for the each holiday, loosely based on the theme of the day. ...
Commentary by Craig Wilson, the first Delta Watermaster and former Chief Counsel to State Water Board: The Governor recently stated...
Written by John Kingsbury, Executive Director of the Mountain Counties Water Resources Association The long history of California is embattled with disputes over water diversions for export to other regions. The US Army ran out the Paiutes from the Owens...
From John Kingsbury at the Mountain Counties Water Resources Association: “On Tuesday, April 7, 2015, the State Water Resources Control...
Mike Wade at the California Farm Water Coalition offers this rebuttal to last Friday’s flashback post, Dr. Peter Gleick on...
This commentary is written by John Kingsbury, Executive Director of the Mountain Counties Water Resources Association: Mountain watersheds can survive without the Delta, but the Delta cannot survive without the watersheds. The waters that form creeks and streams in the...
Note: This post is written by guest blogger Roberta Long. Three of California’s top water decision-makers came to Placerville on...
From Cannon Michael (@agleader), this guest commentary and rebuttal to yesterday’s Pacific Institute and NRDC Media Call: California is experiencing...
From Spreck Rosekrans, Executive Director of Hetch Hetchy: “For many of us, loving Yosemite means loving the whole park and therefore restoring Hetch Hetchy Valley to its former glory. And restoring Hetch Hetchy Valley means developing a practical water system...
Today’s guest blogger is David Zetland of the Aguanomics blog, who wrote this exclusively for Maven’s Notebook: “California is gripped...
Jerry Meral has posted a three-part blog series over at the Bay Delta Conservation Plan website which covers the history...
Yosemite’s Hetch Hetchy Valley was taken from the American people 100 years ago. It’s time to take it back. Commentary by Spreck Rosekrans, Executive Director of Restore Hetch Hetchy California’s water wars date back to the Gold Rush, when miners...
From Steven Kasower, Strategic Economic Applications Company: “Federal and State water contractors are being asked by the Brown administration to...
From Lloyd Carter at the Chronicles of the Hydraulic Brotherhood blog: “Westlands Water District directors Wednesday (Nov. 21) hosted a...
Kate Poole at the Natural Resources Defense Council fires back at the State’s analysis of the portfolio approach on the NRDC’s Switchboard blog, saying the State has built it’s rejection on ‘on misinformation and flawed analyses.’ She cites five points...