From USGS: “Extensive groundwater pumping from San Joaquin Valley aquifers is increasing the rate of land subsidence, or sinking. This...
The State Water Contractors, ACWA, the State Water Contractors, the California Farm Water Coalition, and the Southern California Water Committee...
At the State of the Estuary conference held at the end of October, Ellen Hanak gave a presentation that summarized the results of a set of surveys of both scientists and stakeholders on their views of the Delta ecosystem. The...
The San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors has written a letter to Secretary John Laird highlighting several issues that were...
The Friends of the River have sent a letter to NOAA fisheries, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation,...
At the State of the Estuary conference held at the end of October, economist Jeff Michael and Deputy Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency Jerry Meral discussed the economics of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan in a panel discussion...
At the National Water Research Institute’s Drought Response Workshop held last month, DWR Interstate Resources Manager Jeanine Jones gave a...
From Congressman John Garamendi’s office: “Congressman John Garamendi (CA-3), former Deputy Secretary of the Interior, joins other Northern California Members...
The Friends of the San Francisco Estuary have written two letters to state officials regarding the Bay Delta Conservation Plan. The first letter is addressed to Chair Felicia Marcus of the State Water Resources Control Board. In the letter, they...
On October 29th,2013, the House Subcommittee on Water and Power held on oversight hearing, A Road Map for Increasing Our...
Written by yours truly, posted at Zocalo Public Square: “In California, we owe the existence of our communities to the...
At the National Water Research Institute’s Drought Response Workshop, October 8, 2013, John Leahigh, Principal Engineer for State Water Project Operations at California Department of Water Resources, gave a briefing on the outlook for operations of the State Water Project in...
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The 11th Biennial State of the Estuary conference held in October, 2013, brought together the leaders from the state’s resource...
From the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, this press release: “The state and federal water export projects continue to ignore regulatory...
This is the third in a series of profiles written especially for Maven’s Notebook by Emily DeMarco. The first in the series was Melinda Terry of the North Delta Water Agency, followed by the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Kate Poole. ...