Water Bond Easily Wins Voters’ Nod Battle Begins To Keep Funding Steered Toward Intended Purposes After a decade of effort, California has produced a voter-embraced water bond that will result in real water development. Now, however, what may be the…
Florida Senator Rubio Sees Dam, Hears Problems Friant Water Authority leaders never turn down an opportunity to explain the valley’s water crisis to a United States Senator, especially on Friant’s home turf. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FLORIDA) met with Friant…
What Friant Wants In Drought Measure The Friant Water Authority has provided specifics of what the Friant family does and does not support as a House-Senate conference labors to iron out extensive differences in California drought legislation. Authority Chairman Harvey…
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…
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…
Obama Views Drought Impacts President Barack Obama’s brief Valentine’s Day visit to the parched western San Joaquin Valley has thus far resulted in no additional Central Valley Project water but did bring some federal drought relief financial aid and a…
Bond Debate Has Stop At Fresno Hearing Potential water bonds lining up for the November ballot continue to get a Legislative shaking out as lawmakers attempt to whittle down a field of some seven proposals. During a February 20…
Debate Resumes On Water Bonds California’s Legislature is beginning 2014 taking up where it left off on considering what, if anything, to do about the state’s proposed multi-billion-dollar water infrastructure bond measure. As it stands, an $11.2 billion bond proposal…
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…
Delta Is Focus Of Summit Speakers from a wide variety of perspectives will address crucial Bay-Delta Estuary water, infrastructure and environmental issues during a Delta Water Summit on Saturday, August 3, that the Friant Water Authority is co-sponsoring. The public…