STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD Conservation Mandates Begin California’s first-ever emergency regulations mandating urban water conservation have taken effect following July 28 approval by the Office of Administrative Law. State Water Resources Control Board members on July 15 adopted the…
Water Bond Efforts Still Continuing Legislators are beginning August by going to back to work after a summer recess with some sort of decision likely by the middle of the month on whether or not a revised comprehensive infrastructure water…
Friant’s ‘Zero’ Disaster Mounts Parched Trees Being Pulled As Senior Rights Water Releases Begin Zero remains the frustrating word for Friant Division growers who continue to have no Central Valley Project water to use and, in many cases, little or…
Friant Crisis ‘Didn’t Need To Happen’ Drought conditions that resulted in miniscule San Joaquin River snowpack and runoff conditions would have been tough to deal with under natural circumstances but there should be at least a little Central Valley Project…
State Water Bond Talks Continuing Time is beginning to run short on efforts in the California Legislature to frame a new, slimmed-down state water bond. Efforts are continuing around the State Capitol to find bipartisan consensus on a measure that…
May 20, 2014 For Immediate Release RONALD D. JACOBSMA, GENERAL MANAGER Office: (559) 562-6305 or Mobile: (559) 799-0700 Or: JENNIFER BUCKMAN, GENERAL COUNSEL Telephone: (916) 804-0173 Friant Files Legal Challenge Over How Exchange Contractors’ Water Is Being Supplied How the…
FROM THE GENERAL MANAGER Today’s River And Salmon By Ronald D. Jacobsma For Friant water users and your local districts, there has never been a more difficult water supply year. As we all know much too well, right now there…
Zero Allocation Concerns Draw Big Crowd Audience Of 2,000 Friant Water Users Hears Drought’s Grim Status, Rallies For Flexibility Briefly heavy rain may have been falling outside but water supply curtailments were most on the minds of a concerned Tulare…
Fresno Rally And Hearing A large crowd rallies for water outside Fresno City Hall before a House Natural Resources Committee hearing March 19 on the state’s water crisis and its impacts. Chairman Doc Hastings (R-WASHINGTON), the entire valley Congressional delegation…
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.…