Water Shortage Losses Mount, Hit $2.2 Billion UC Davis Study Lists 17,100 Job Losses California Department of Food and Agriculture and the University of California, Davis Center for Watershed Sciences provides a glimpse of the consequences of water supply shortages…
Groundwater Bills Clear Legislative Committees The state continues to move closer to groundwater regulation. Two bills aimed at advancing sustainable management of California’s groundwater basins moved out of Senate and Assembly committees June 24 with talks continuing to work out…
State Groundwater Regulation May Be Looming Serious state efforts to regulate California’s groundwater use and management that many in irrigated agriculture have been anticipating for more than two decades now appear to be right around the corner. State agencies and…
Friant Water Authority Hosting Informational Meeting on California Drought Drought Update U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and State Officials join East Side water leaders in a brief informational discussion of the Zero Allocation for users along the Friant-Kern and Madera canals.…
Massive Delta Plan’s Release Sparks Debate December’s release of the 34,000-page Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) and its environmental review for formal public review has unleashed a torrent of debate and obvious statewide division over the proposal and its key…
Friant Participates In News Conference On Dry Year Worries Two Friant Division water leaders took part in a December 17 news conference in Bakersfield during which Representative David G. Valadao (R-CALIFORNIA) and State Senator Jean Fuller (R-BAKERSFIELD) reiterated their request…
Friant Staff Evaluating Draft Bay-Delta Plan Release of the Bay-Delta Comprehensive Plan’s administrative draft continues and as each chapter becomes publicly available the Friant Water Authority’s staff is evaluating what the plan says. “We are taking a close look at…
A recently-floated Natural Resources Defense Council trial balloon seeking to drastically downsize a proposed Delta water conveyance tunnel would have enormous long-term negative consequences to San Joaquin Valley agriculture, the California Farm Water Coalition contends. NRDC and a coalition of…
Delta Fish Counts Are Discouraging Reductions Don’t Consider Estuary’s Many Other Habitat, Water Quality Stressors New counts of six Delta fish species showed discouraging reductions in numbers during 2012. A trawl-net survey within the estuary conducted last fall after a…
Bay-Delta Plan To Legislature Governor Brown used his State of the State address to reiterate his support for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan and its through-Delta conveyance proposals and talk about costs. “My proposed plan is two tunnels, 30…