Water Supply
From: Patrick Cavanaugh,
California Ag Today
Showing the economics behind a
single crop grown in the San Joaquin Valley was the vision of Steve Malanca,
General Manager of Thomason Tractor Co, in Firebaugh. With the help of Gayle
Holman, Public Affairs Representative with Westland Water District, more than
200 came together in an alfalfa field, west of Firebaugh, filled with the
equipment and services necessary to grow the crop.
From: Joan Leon, Santa Maria
Times
Driving around the Santa Maria
Valley, we are refreshed with scenes of vigorous agriculture fields. We seem to
have enough water to support these agricultural operations. But are these water
sources secure?
Driving home on Interstate 5
recently from vacation, we were dismayed to see entire orchards of dead trees,
withered crops, fields lying fallow. How did this happen? Signs were posted
wrongly blaming the state for lack of water.
Water Quality
From: Alex Breitler, Stockton
Record
Farmers protested new water-quality
regulations Thursday, saying the proposed rules would bury them in paperwork
and chisel away at their profits without necessarily improving pollution.
"Ten years ago, I told my
wife I wanted to move to Nebraska. I wish I'd done that," Stockton farmer
Richard Rodriguez told the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board.
Delta
From: Staff, California Public
Radio
It's one of the largest sources
of water for the world's 8th largest economy. The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
has been called the heart of California's water system. As lawmakers, conservationists,
farmers, policy experts and others debate the future of the Delta, this
five-part series tells the story of how the region both connects and divides
Californians.
Environment Reporter Amy Quinton
takes a comprehensive look at how the Delta is tied to the rest of the state
and what it means to everyday Californians.
Districts
From: Rob Parsons, Merced
Sun-Star
Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday
signed legislation aimed directly at preventing a significant rate hike for
Merced Irrigation District electric customers.
The new law, Senate Bill 591, was
co-written by Sen. Anthony Cannella, R-Ceres, and Assemblyman Adam Gray,
D-Merced, and passed both houses of the state Legislature in August.
In a statement released late
Thursday, MID General Manager John Sweigard praised both Merced County
legislators and the governor's office.
Salton Sea
From: Keven E. Kelley,
Sacramento Bee
Re "Finally, one California
water deal gets done" (Dan Walters, Sept. 30): Despite the court's action
upholding the 2003 Quantification Settlement Agreement for Colorado River
water, it did nothing to advance one of the deal's central objectives: prevent
the accelerated decline of the Salton Sea.
Drought
From: Angela Bowman, AG
Professional
Drought continues its grip on the
nation's midsection, and though some areas may see relief in October, the same
can't be said for some of the nation's biggest crop-producing states.
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