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...
At the National Water Research Institute’s Drought Response Workshop held last month, DWR Interstate Resources Manager Jeanine Jones gave a presentation on current statewide water conditions and preparations for a potentially dry 2014. During her presentation, Ms. Jones discussed how...
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....
On October 29th,2013, the House Subcommittee on Water and Power held on oversight hearing, A Road Map for Increasing Our Water and Hydropower Supplies: The Need for New or Expanded Multi-purpose Facilities. The hearing, led by Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock,...
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...
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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 agencies to discuss the multiple planning processes going on and share their views on how these processes will work together....
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...
After thousands of comments, several meetings, and three drafts, the first Delta Science Plan has been completed and accepted by the Delta Stewardship Council at their October 25 meeting. Lead scientist Dr. Goodwin began by noting that it is almost...
With the release of the Governor’s California Water Action Plan, you may be feeling overwhelmed by the sheer number of...
At the October meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, staff updated the Council on the covered actions regulatory process and...
With the grim reaper of legislation sure to be visiting the $11.14 billion water bond early in 2014 to officially banish the bond to the junk pile of failed legislation, both the Assembly and Senate are hard at work crafting...