Water Supply
From: Heather Hacking, Chico
Enterprise-Record
A recent survey by the Public
Policy Institute of Californian asked how people felt about the future of water
supply, how they'd vote on a scaled-back water bond and if they are opposed to
fracking.
Other questions included
legalization of marijuana, granting immigration, gay and lesbian marriage,
prison realignment, health care reform, military strike on Syria and abortion.
From: Press Release, Public
Policy Institute of California
Half of Californians support the
plan approved by the governor and legislature to reduce prison overcrowding,
according to a statewide survey released today by the Public Policy Institute
of California (PPIC), with funding from The James Irvine Foundation. At the
same time, overwhelming majorities are concerned about the possible early
release of thousands of prisoners that the plan is designed to prevent.
There is less agreement among
Californians on water policy. About half (53%) say the water supply for their
part of the state will be somewhat or very inadequate in 10 years. And
residents are divided about how to plan for the future. About half (49%) say we
should focus on conservation, user allocation, and other strategies to manage
water more efficiently, while 45 percent say we need to build new water storage
systems.
From: Maven, Maven's Notebook
New PPIC survey shows
Californians divided on water policy: While Californians continue to
support fracking regulations and strongly support oil companies obtaining
permits and disclosing chemicals used in the process, they are much more divided
on water policy, a new PPIC poll shows: "... About half (53%)
say the water supply for their part of the state will be somewhat or very
inadequate in 10 years. And residents are divided about how to plan for the
future. About half (49%) say we should focus on conservation, user allocation,
and other strategies to manage water more efficiently, while 45 percent say we
need to build new water storage systems.
From: John Myers, News-10 TV
Voters are firm in their
opinions. Except when they're not.
Consider that one of the big
takeaways in a new statewide poll that suggests California voters may now be
ready to do what they rejected just three years ago: legalize marijuana.
Water Woes: The new poll not only finds a familiar split when it comes to whether
Californians want more water (45 percent) or just wiser usage of water (49
percent), but a pretty weak starting point for a big water bond measure on the
statewide ballot. Even when considering a $6.5 billion proposal (PDF) now
being mulled at the Capitol -- smaller than the original water bond plan --
only 50 percent of likely voters queried by PPIC say they'd vote for it.
From: Richard Cray, Marysville
Appeal-Democrat
Regular readers of the
Appeal-Democrat will have noted the appearance of several recent articles
dealing with water issues of one kind or another. Whether it's the water
worries of the residents of Gold Village, the water bills of Marysville
ratepayers, receding water tables in the Central Valley, or the fight over who
controls the water of the Colorado River, two things about water are clear:
everyone needs it, but not everyone can get what they need at the price they
can afford.
From: Jim Finstad, Marysville
Appeal-Democrat
Concerning the Sept. 18 article,
"Farmers want to keep on truckin'":
Funds were available to farmers
and ranchers interested in reducing air quality emissions from off-road mobile
or stationary agriculture sources. The USDA-National Resources Conservation
Service began taking applications in June 2009 to provide cost-sharing funds to
replace, repower, or retrofit existing engines under a new clean air quality
provision of the 2008 federal farm bill.
Farming
From: Pat Cavanaugh,
California Ag Today
Bob Ehn, CEO and Technical
Manager for the Clovis-based California Garlic and Onion Research Advisor
Board, noted that the 2013-2014 season is shaping up to be a major production
challenge.
"As expected, growers on the
West Side are not committing to planting garlic or onions this winter, and
processors and handlers are scrambling trying to find growers who can contract
with them on land not effected by a possible zero Federal water
allocation," said Ehn.
Bay Delta
Conservation Plan
From: Steven Greenhut, San
Diego Union-Tribune
The system that moves water from
relatively wet Northern California to arid Southern California is like a
superhighway that's hundreds of miles long, but is slowed by about 40 miles of
dirt roads in the middle of it.
That's how Jeffrey Kightlinger,
general manager of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California,
described the state's main water problem during a media tour Monday of the
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta hosted by MWD and state water officials.
From: Janet E. Levers,
Sacramento Bee
Re "Why south state backs
Delta plan" (Page A1, Sept. 22): I appreciate the depth and breadth of Bee
reporter Matt Weiser's article on the proposed Delta tunnels.
I do wish, however, that Weiser
had taken a more critical, questioning view of the propaganda that the
Department of Water Resources and and its Bay Delta Conservation Plan cronies
have cooked up to justify this massive boondoggle.
Water Bond
From: Staff, Vacaville
Reporter
A joint hearing of the Senate
Environmental Quality and Natural Resources and Water Committees heard presentations
and comments Tuesday on two water bond proposals, including Senator Lois Wolk's
Senate Bill 42, The Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality & Flood Protection
Act of 2014.
Delta
From: Maven, Maven's Notebook
On September 24, 2013,
Metropolitan Water District's Special Committee on the Bay-Delta was updated on
the status of the Collaborative Science and Adaptive Management Program (CSAMP)
as well as the progress on several near-term Delta habitat restoration and
emergency response preparedness projects.
Recycling
From: Dennis Wyatt, Manteca
Bulletin
California's ultimate water war
will start in your bathroom.
It will be over who has rights to
what you flush down your toilet, send down your sink drains and dump into the
sewer system from your washing machine.
The wastewater under California
Water Code Section 1210 is owned by the jurisdiction operating the system that
collects and treats it. The owners of treatment plants, though, may not have
exclusive rights to the treated effluent or the water released back into a
stream or river. Water Code Section 1485 specially allows jurisdictions
operating wastewater treatment plants that dump treated effluent into the San
Joaquin River or the Delta to take an equal amount of water for sale or other
beneficial purposes.
Conservation
From: Antoine Abou-Diwan,
Imperial Valley Press
The Imperial Irrigation District
hosted a public workshop Wednesday to discuss the preservation of the IID's
water rights and the challenges posed by the massive water transfer at the
heart of the Quantification Settlement Agreement.
Yet, more than a year after the
IID adopted an alternative approach to the QSA and less than two months after
the validity of the transfer was upheld in court, the message from the
district's attorneys is essentially the same: The IID and the farm community
must make a reasonable effort to conserve Colorado River water.
Groundwater
From: Jono Kinkade, SLO New
Times
County supes consider extending
Paso basin urgency ordinance After making a tough 4-0 vote to approve a
temporary urgency ordinance intended to slow water overdrafting from the Paso
Robles Groundwater Basin, the SLO County Board of Supervisors is about to do it
again and decide whether to continue the ordinance for two years or to leave it
dead in the water.
Water Quality
From: Staff, Porterville
Recorder
State water regulators have
adopted an order for farmers to monitor and clean up groundwater in
California's Central Valley, home to some of America's most contaminated
aquifers.
The order, adopted by the Central
Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board on Thursday, affects about 10,700
growers in the Tulare Lake basin - including parts of Fresno, Tulare, Kings and
Kern counties - who farm on about 3 million acres of irrigated farmland.
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