On August 13th, the Senate Governance and Finance and the Natural Resources and Water Committees held a joint information hearing titled, “The Governance and Financing of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan: Overview of the Issues.” The hearing was co-chaired by...
From Senator Wolk’s office, this press release: Senator Lois Wolk (D-Davis) today introduced a $5.6 billion water bond to provide funding for broadly supported projects to address the state’s urgent water needs. “SB 42 is a fresh approach to this...
The five Fresno County supervisors have written Senator Feinstein, asking her to introduce legislation to aid the Central Valley in avoiding the same conditions that the Valley suffered through in 2009 when water allocations were low and 300,000 acres of...
With at least seventeen seawater desalination facilities currently proposed along California’s coast in such locales as Huntington Beach, Monterey Bay,...
Filling in today for the vacationing Maven is a guest blogger. So what do you do when you have two economists that disagree? Add a third, of course! Today’s guest blogger is Rodney T. Smith, Phd, who blogs at the Hydrowonk...
With large restoration acreage targets and potentially billions of dollars to be spent by multiple agencies on restoration in the Delta, these multiple efforts must be effective and coordinated if the coequal goal of restoring the Delta’s ecosystem is to...
