tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83261941331178741522024-03-13T11:17:39.531-07:00Farm Water NewsKeep up-to-date with all the latest farm water news with News Line, our daily compilation of trending and important articles and media. California Farm Water Coalitionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04055772853062724811noreply@blogger.comBlogger965125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326194133117874152.post-11926259767285471602014-08-14T14:12:00.000-07:002014-08-14T14:12:34.540-07:00News articles and links from August 14, 2014
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water spending plan at a glance</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Details of the $7.5 billion water
package approved by the Legislature Wednesday for the November ballot (the
total repayment cost is projected to be $14.7 billion over 30 years, assuming a
5 percent interest rate on the borrowing):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">$2.7 billion for water storage
projects, with criteria that are designed to encourage building the Sites
Reservoir in Colusa County north of Sacramento and Temperance Flat dam
northeast of Fresno.</span></div>
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in drought-hit California finally agree on water plan</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Sharon Bernstein,
Reuters</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">California Governor Jerry Brown
approved on Wednesday a $7.6 billion plan to improve water supplies in the
drought-stricken state that will be put before voters in November, ending a
year of political wrangling over the measure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">California is in the throes of a
devastating multi-year drought that is expected to cost its economy $2.2
billion in lost crops, jobs and other damages.</span></div>
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$7.5 Billion California Water Plan Would Fund Long-Planned Sites Reservoir In
Colusa County</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Staff, CBS 13 </b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Part of California's $7.5 billion
water plan approved by legislators on Wednesday will go into building a
reservoir in Colusa County discussed since the 1950s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Some neighbors are embracing the
plan to submerge 14,000 acres of rolling hills 20 miles west of Colusa for the
proposed Sites Reservoir. "Revenue, money, water, resources. Bring land
value up. There is a lot of good reasons for it," said Donald Carter.</span></div>
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to vote on $7.5 billion water plan</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Fenit Nirappil,
Associated Press</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Driven to action by the state's
historic drought, California lawmakers on Wednesday voted to place a $7.5
billion water plan before voters in November. The measure marks the largest
investment in decades in the state's water infrastructure and is designed to
build reservoirs, clean up contaminated groundwater and promote water-saving
technologies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">It replaces an existing water
bond that was approved by a previous Legislature but was widely considered too
costly and too bloated with pork-barrel projects to win favor with voters.</span></div>
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Lawmakers Vote to Send $7.5 Billion Water Plan to Ballots</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Staff, Associated Press</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">California lawmakers on Wednesday
voted to place a $7.5 billion water plan before voters in November, driven to
action by the state's severe and costly drought.</span></div>
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largest investment in decades in California's water infrastructure and is
designed to build reservoirs, clean up contaminated groundwater and promote
water-saving technologies.</span></div>
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will vote on multi-billion dollar water bond</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Reid Wilson, Washington
Post </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Voters in California will pass
judgement on a massive $7.2 billion water bond package aimed at addressing a
record drought after interest groups came to a last-minute agreement this week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Gov. Jerry Brown (D) on Tuesday
unveiled a compromise plan that earned support from interest groups ranging
from conservationists to the Chamber of Commerce and agricultural businesses.
Late Wednesday, legislators passed the plan by the required two-thirds vote
after scrambling to meet a legal deadline for this year's election.</span></div>
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to vote on scaled-down $7.5-billion water bond in November</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Melanie Mason, Los
Angeles Times</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">After months of political
haggling, a ballot measure that will ask voters in November to approve $7.5
billion in borrowing for water projects sailed through the Legislature on
Wednesday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Soon afterward, flanked by dozens
of lawmakers from both parties, Gov. Jerry Brown signed the measure, which is
intended to provide funds for new reservoirs, water cleanup and environmental
protection.</span></div>
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California water bond heading to voters</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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Francisco Chronicle</b></span></div>
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Wednesday night to swap out an unpopular $11 billion water bond with one they
hope voters will find more palatable: a scaled-back $7 billion version that
earned widespread bipartisan support. It was promptly signed by Gov. Jerry
Brown.</span></div>
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appear on the November statewide ballot as Proposition 1. Included in the deal
is $2.7 billion for water storage projects, $900 million for groundwater
cleanup and monitoring, $725 million for water recycling and $1.5 billion for watershed
restoration programs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Anyone who has followed water
politics in California knows it is messy, divisive and often defies compromise.
In view of those dynamics, Wednesday's near-unanimous floor votes to approve a
new November water bond -- 37-0 in the Senate and 77-2 in the Assembly -- mark
an impressive bit of political deal making.</span></div>
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clear he is no fan of additional deep borrowing by the state. But given the
severe drought gripping California, he also recognized the need to push a
comprehensive water bond that would provide relief through short-term fixes
like recycling and treatment as well as longer-term remedies that take the form
of more reservoir storage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Steven Greenhut, San
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many whitefish in the Yellowstone River?" asked Montana-based landscape
artist Russell Chatham, in his 1978 book. "Because the Fish and Game
people have never done anything to help them." I keep that quotation in
mind whenever the government promises to solve a problem, especially a big one
that promises to tame nature.</span></div>
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sausage making - that age-old cliché about the ugly nature of lawmaking -
assures that deals to please special interests and appease people with
differing political philosophies and constituencies drives the final result.
Ongoing efforts to craft a drought-related water bond fits that pattern to a
tee.</span></div>
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Gov. Jerry Brown helps whip up a palatable water bond</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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Angeles Times</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Five years after producing a
pork-bloated water bond proposal that failed the smell test, the Legislature
has offered up a new serving that's lean and digestible.</span></div>
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who had the right recipe: smaller portions, light on delta ingredients. The
Legislature passed the bond bill Wednesday night. It doesn't quite fill
everyone's appetite but will do just fine.</span></div>
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wary of state regulating groundwater</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The state of California uses more
groundwater than any other state in the union, but it's also the only state in
the West that doesn't have any regulations to make sure wells don't run dry.</span></div>
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doing the best it can to produce crops during another year of drought. At
this point, farmers have given up on El Niño bringing through any rain, forcing
them to rely even more on groundwater. "We're panicked," says Beatris
Sanders of the Kern County Farm Bureau. "It's incredibly
vital. We can't live without it. We can't farm without it. We
can't produce food."</span></div>
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Irrigation District are urging growers to use all their water allocations by
Sept. 15.</span></div>
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when Lake McClure's level drops to 85,000 acre-feet of water. Irrigation water
is measured per acre-foot, which is the amount of water it takes to cover an
acre of land a foot deep, or about 325,900 gallons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Rick Elkins, Porterville
Recorder</b></span></div>
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flow down the Tule River through Porterville and while the amount is not a lot,
it will benefit not only growers in the Terra Bella area, but residents along
the river and eventually the Porter Slough.</span></div>
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and Sean Geivet, manager of the Porterville Irrigation District (PID), said at
the end of the release out of Success Dam the water will be diverted down the
Porter Slough to hopefully help residents along the slough whose wells have
gone dry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Farming in California isn't
cheap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Growers have expenses that
include fuel, fertilizer, and feed, but the biggest cost is labor with one out
of every four dollars spent on human workers. In the Midwest, predominant crops
like corn can be mechanically harvested.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Stockton Grower Marc Marchini
says his asparagus must be picked by hand. "A lot of people are trying to
get away from labor, you know, trying to go to mechanical harvesting,
mechanical pruning, mechanical everything," Marchini says.</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
California Farm Water Coalitionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04055772853062724811noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326194133117874152.post-73829039327624789172014-08-13T11:02:00.000-07:002014-08-13T11:02:10.668-07:00News articles and links from August 13, 2014
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Deadbeat dam projects shouldn't be part of water bond</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Steve Evans, Modesto Bee</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">In November, California voters
will be asked how much money they want to borrow to improve the state's water
infrastructure and fight the drought. Because polls show an $11.1 billion general
obligation bond on the Nov. 4 ballot is too expensive for many voters,
legislators are scrambling to revise the water bond to make it more palatable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Along with the total amount,
another point of contention is how much is allotted to building new and
enlarging existing surface storage dams. The current bond and the $8.7 billion
version proposed by Senate Republicans include $3 billion for new and bigger
dams, but Gov. Jerry Brown's $6 billion proposal whittles this down to $2
billion. A coalition of environmental groups allocates $1 billion for surface
storage in its $6 billion plan.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Coalition response... </span></i></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Contrary to Evans' repetition of antiquated view of water storage dams,
for more than fifty years environmental interests have benefited from the many
advantages that our past investments in surface storage provide to our managed
waterways. Reservoirs have enabled us to meet the needs of fisheries, wetlands,
and meet other environmental water issues while seeking to meet the needs of
our cities, businesses and farms. We only have to look at where water in our
rivers is coming from in the middle of this year's hot summer. It's not natural
flow. The water we see supporting wildlife resources in our rivers and the
Delta is coming from previously built upstream storage - storage that was built
specifically for the purpose of providing water during a time of the year when
nature can't. Thankfully the legislature isn't falling for obstructionist
rhetoric this time and is taking seriously the need to build new storage
projects for California's growing economy. Wise investments will pay off down
the road as previous ones are now. </span></div>
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drought, California Democrats seek Republican votes on water plan</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Sharon Bernstein,
Reuters</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">California Democrats scrambled on
Tuesday to win Republican support for a plan to improve water supplies that has
been mired in regional and party politics for a year, even as the state suffers
from a three-year drought that shows no sign of ending.</span></div>
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extension to put a proposal on November's ballot to pay for reservoirs and
other projects by selling bonds, Democratic lawmakers enlisted the support and
negotiating clout of Democratic Governor Jerry Brown, a fiscal moderate who
said previous plans were too expensive.</span></div>
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plan vote on new California water bond</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Fenit NIrappil,
Associated Press</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Pressed by a deadline and
California's severe drought, state lawmakers are scheduled to vote Wednesday on
a measure that would swap out an existing water bond on the November ballot and
authorize billions in borrowing to pay for new reservoirs, groundwater cleanup
and habitat restoration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">On Tuesday, lawmakers were
negotiating what they hoped would be a final agreement with Gov. Jerry Brown
for a plan that would boost the state's water supply while protecting the
environment. The governor and Democratic legislative leaders had agreed on a
$7.2 billion package to replace the existing, $11.1 billion bond, but
Republican lawmakers were pressing for more money for water storage.</span></div>
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New water bond may be close, but it's not fully cooked yet</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Dan Walters, Sacramento
Bee </b></span></div>
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Wednesday the Legislature will place a new water bond issue on the Nov. 4
ballot. But it's not certain, because as of late Tuesday, not all Democratic
legislators had signed onto a $7.2 billion plan and it still lacked votes it
needs from Republicans even if all Democrats were aboard. </span></div>
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water bond: Support for the latest $7 billion plan builds as deadline looms to
OK it</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Jessica Calefati, San
Jose Mercury News</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Powerful voices in California's
water wars pledged their support Tuesday for a $7 billion state water bond that
lawmakers must pass before Wednesday's midnight deadline if they hope to see it
on the November ballot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The California Farm Bureau
Federation and Los Angeles County's Metropolitan Water District had hoped for
at least $3 billion in the bond for construction of dams, reservoirs and other
storage projects.</span></div>
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Valley legislators should stand firm on water bond deal</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Staff, Modesto Bee</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The state's water bond will turn
into a rotten pumpkin if no deal is reached by Thursday's already extended
deadline. But legislators from the Northern San Joaquin Valley might just be
wearing glass slippers, if you'll forgive the fairytale metaphor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Our state desperately needs a
water bond, but with urban Democrats squabbling, our legislators have a chance
to protect our region's water security.</span></div>
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$6 billion water bond is still sweet spot for voters</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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of purloined porridge, California voters have been looking for a water bond
that is not too dear, and not too cheap, but just right.</span></div>
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until not only the last minute - that was Monday - but created a new last
minute, which is Wednesday, to finalize the language and thus the proposed
scale of spending on a crucial water bond during this third year of statewide
drought, well, what else is new? Legislative leaders were able to push the
deadline for printing the argument for such a bond on millions of sample
ballots by 48 hours, and if it results in a bond measure with the number of
billions of dollars voters will approve and an appropriate scope of work that
will aid in drought relief, so be it.</span></div>
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brace for the worst as America's largest reservoir reaches record low water
levels with only enough supply to last another year</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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are idle as a 14-year drought steadily drops water levels to historic lows.
Officials from nearby Las Vegas are pushing conservation, but are also drilling
a new pipeline to keep drawing water from the lake.</span></div>
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farmers accused of 'unlawful' water diversions</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Alex Breitler, Stockton
Record</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Delta farmers have quietly sipped
from rivers and sloughs for generations, but they face increasing pressure this
drought year from outside interests who argue those water diversions are - or
may be - illegal.</span></div>
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last month asked regulators to use their emergency powers to demand information
from more than 1,000 of those farmers as to how much water they're using.</span></div>
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All sides in water wars should get behind protecting Mokelumne River</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Bill Jennings &
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">People who follow California's
water wars may wonder whether experts who disagree on the Bay Delta
Conservation Plan ever agree on anything at all. The answer is yes. We agree
it's time to protect 37 miles of the Central Sierra's Mokelumne River as a
state Wild and Scenic River.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Oakland,
introduced the legislation to protect the river, Senate Bill 1199, which is now
in the state Assembly. The legislation would bar new dams and diversions on 37
miles of the "Moke" between Salt Springs Dam and Pardee Reservoir and
protect the river's water quality. It has no relationship to the larger water
fights in the state but should be judged on its own merits.</span></div>
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salmon advocates ask more water for fish</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Interior Secretary Sally Jewell
agreed to an impromptu meeting with salmon advocates demanding more water for
salmon in Northern California's Klamath and Trinity rivers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">After the Tuesday meeting in
Redding, California, salmon advocate Regina Chichizola said Jewell agreed to
send someone to assess the situation, but made no promises.</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
California Farm Water Coalitionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04055772853062724811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326194133117874152.post-86744810416994251382014-08-12T14:12:00.002-07:002014-08-12T14:12:51.075-07:00News articles and links from August 12, 2014
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group awash in water while neighbors' crops die</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Peter Fimrite, SF
Chronicle</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">As cities brace for rationing and
many California farmers yank out trees and fallow land for crops, growers and
dairy farmers on 240,000 acres along the San Joaquin River near Los Banos are
comparatively awash in water. The property owners and farmers who are
within the 80-mile-long territory that falls under the authority of the San
Joaquin River Exchange Contractors will get 75 percent of the water they
historically receive this year from the California State Water Project and the
federal Central Valley Project.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Coalition response...</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"> As a result of the Exchange Contractors agreeing to shift the source of
their pre-1914 appropriative and riparian rights and enter into contracts with
the federal government, San Joaquin River water became available to farmers on
the eastside of the San Joaquin Valley who otherwise would not have that water
to grow much of the food that we all look for in our grocery stores. Cities and
small rural communities have also benefited from the water developed by the
construction of Friant Dam, a cornerstone of the CVP, which would not have
happened if the Exchange Contractors had not agreed to enter into the agreements
with the federal government over 75 years ago. Conservation programs are
extremely important and are implemented by each of the EC members. This
year the implementation of inflexible federal and state environmental
regulations coupled with the drought has crippled the CVP and forced the
federal government to make deliveries to senior right holders on the San
Joaquin River. If anyone has benefited from this "good deal," as Tom
Stokely describes it, it is the small rural communities in the San Joaquin
Valley, refuges and consumers throughout our state and around the world. </span></div>
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Deadbeat dam projects shouldn't be part of water bond</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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will be asked how much money they want to borrow to improve the state's water
infrastructure and fight the drought. Because polls show an $11.1 billion
general obligation bond on the Nov. 4 ballot is too expensive for many voters,
legislators are scrambling to revise the water bond to make it more palatable.</span></div>
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another point of contention is how much is allotted to building new and
enlarging existing surface storage dams. The current bond and the $8.7 billion
version proposed by Senate Republicans include $3 billion for new and bigger
dams, but Gov. Jerry Brown's $6 billion proposal whittles this down to $2
billion. A coalition of environmental groups allocates $1 billion for surface
storage in its $6 billion plan.</span></div>
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bond deadline looming; California lawmakers float $7.195 billion proposal</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Scrambling to place a new water
bond before voters, California's legislative leaders on Monday converged on a
$7.195 billion proposal and carved out more time to finish it by delaying a
looming electoral deadline.</span></div>
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blueprint surfaced as the Legislature toiled under a rapidly closing window to
act. With November elections months away, California's secretary of state was
scheduled to begin printing voter guides on Monday evening.</span></div>
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A water bond seems within reach, if no side overreaches</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">An agreement on a revised water
bond for the November ballot seemed within reach on Monday, but only if no side
gets too grabby. That includes legislators from both parties and from all
regions, and it includes members of Congress.</span></div>
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reported, California lawmakers converged on a proposed bond in the range of
$7.2 billion. </span></div>
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Democrats close in on water bond deal</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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legislative leaders said Monday they are closing in on a deal to overhaul a
water bond on the November ballot, but their replacement plan still needs
support from Republicans.</span></div>
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voted Monday to extend the deadline for printing voter pamphlets, giving
lawmakers and the governor another two days to reach an agreement.</span></div>
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technology help us survive California's drought?</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">More than 80% of California is
now in a state of extreme drought, according to the latest assessment. The
environmental conditions that residents are experiencing today actually began
in 2011. Still, there seems to be no end in sight. Water costs are sky high, as
you would expect, but Californians are paying the price in more ways than one. </span></div>
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agriculture industry, for example, stands to lose $1.7 billion this year as a
result of what some believe is the worst drought to affect the region in 500
years. Some 14,500 workers could lose their jobs in an area responsible for
half of the state's agriculture and five percent of the entire nation's.</span></div>
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fears: Lake Mead hits all-time low</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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largest reservoir, has hit an all time-low since it was first filled in the
1930s, raising concerns that a water shortage could be declared for a region
home to 40 million people in seven fast-growing states.</span></div>
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California, record heat adding to extreme drought</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The first half of 2014 was by far
the hottest in California in 120 years of record-keeping, and that heat is
exacerbating one of the most devastating droughts in state history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Month after month, the red and
burgundy patches on the California drought map have been spreading, with 82
percent of the state now classified as being in "extreme" or
"exceptional" drought on the U.S. Drought Monitor website.</span></div>
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TID doing its part to protect basin, serve residents</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Casey Hashimoto, Modesto
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">For an informed dialogue to
occur, Turlock Irrigation District is compelled to offer additional information
following a recent groundwater editorial (<a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001m8iyPl7i2hMs3-pVOKK-22WdyAYkWBZGQYTCkkB9WQNFjWlziGszehvh3l4ioJ-gn0-tnGW52ikGZctDF81oXfB6pijLSvemveEITF8F51k5HIca9qms_ItN0bJo0PSy7vbta1gwedCfD4jtdWR3AanjqUM5s6erVBcbsZY81fWbyTITcHxP0_rxovUT3ZRV2WDKe1QsIunV3r-IXmWxG_AStw8b0kuybOSMLV7alCkhwyk7YrRvYWd4w0F4ztSxW8waEIy-xZs=&c=-VcCzbZszIkETr0Z9bm1Z2Xzj9G9XQKLPJx0kNGGpxcUVv30VjzMKw==&ch=iYUI9PNOaUkcIAgnpmPzw9kSzsWdQI7JUek4cI2JDUEXdnHbi2cJ8Q=="><span style="color: blue;">Our View: Stanislaus County officials finally responding to
water crisis, July 31</span></a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">TID recognizes there are
challenges within the Turlock groundwater subbasin, and sympathizes with people
who have concerns. This is why we are continuing to fight to maintain
surface-water resources for the area, and hope to expand our water supply
beyond surface water and groundwater. We've also taken steps to conserve water
and make our canal system more efficient, most recently in the development of a
long-term TID water resources plan.</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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billion "no-frills" bond measure on the November ballot, about half
the size of a pending proposal, to secure the water supply amid a record
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of an $11.1 billion bond offering, scheduled for a vote in November, approved
in 2009 by lawmakers and then-Governor <span style="color: #386eff;">Arnold
Schwarzenegger</span>. Brown said California can't afford the $750 million a
year it would add to the state's $8 billion in annual bond debt service.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Seeking to balance the state's
water needs with his reputation for fiscal caution, Gov. Jerry Brown called for
a "no-frills, no pork" $6-billion water bond in an email to campaign
supporters Tuesday afternoon..</span></div>
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noting that "drought conditions in California grow more serious by the
day," and acknowledging more must be done for the state's water
infrastructure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Krista Daly, Imperial
Valley Press</b></span></div>
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begin to submit their annual agricultural crop and livestock reports, the
impact of the drought is being seen.</span></div>
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historically No. 1 in the state and the nation for crop output but has dropped
below Tulare County this year, said Dave Kranz, spokesman for the California
Farm Bureau. Field crops had a 41.7 percent decrease followed by a 19.1 percent
decrease in industrial crops. "Drought is a direct factor in that,"
Kranz said. "We would expect to see continuing impacts with 2014."</span></div>
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cut off to some Klamath Project farms</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Water is being cut off to about a
third of the farms on a federal irrigation project in the drought-parched
Klamath Basin of Oregon and California.</span></div>
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Bureau of Reclamation to irrigation districts says that the flows into the
Klamath Reclamation Project's primary reservoir have been below pre-season
forecasts from the Natural Resources Conservation Service, forcing a reduction
in releases to districts with junior claims on water in order to meet minimum
water levels for endangered fish<b>.</b></span></div>
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Removal During Drought Could Cause Earthquakes</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Leigh Martinez, KOVR 13</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The drought has forced many
homeowners and farmers to dig deeper wells, tapping into the California
aquifer. A recent Take Part web publication, citing NASA scientists, suggests
using too much of this underground water could cause earthquakes.</span></div>
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professor Kurt Burmiester said the possibility is a "maybe."</span></div>
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found that adding water, like in oil fracking, can cause the plates to slip,
but removing water may produce smaller earthquakes outside of the faults.</span></div>
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comments on water release decision</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Congressman Jared Huffman (D-San
Rafael) released the following statement after the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
announced its decision today to withhold water releases on the Trinity River
needed to prevent a repeat of the 2002 Klamath fish kill:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">"The U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation's decision today to withhold water releases needed to prevent a
repeat of the 2002 fish kill in the Lower Klamath River is the latest example
of how the federal government fails to plan for drought to the detriment of
tribes, fishermen, and the environment.</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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California, grower of wine grapes, onions and almonds, had to wait a year to
have a fourth water well dug on his property as the record drought gripping the
most populous U.S. state increased demand for groundwater. </span></div>
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Cardella Ranch with his father in 1970 and produces grapes for E&J Gallo
Winery, the largest exporter of California wines, paid $500,000 to add the well
in June after the federal government said it wouldn't supply his area with its
usual water allocation. The drought forced Cardella to leave half his ranch,
including onion and cotton fields, unplanted this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Staff, Modesto Bee</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Who owns the water? That's the
essential issue in a controversial plan to pump 26,000 acre-feet of groundwater
over two years and sell it to a water district that runs from western Merced
County into San Joaquin County.</span></div>
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approved using the Delta-Mendota Canal to transfer water pumped from beneath
4-S Ranch Partners LLC and SHS Family LP to the Del Puerto Water District.
Valued conservatively at $600 an acre-foot, the transaction could net ranch
owners Steve Sloan and Stephen Smith and their partners $15 million or more.</span></div>
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Managing groundwater would protect this vital resource</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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Bee </b> </span></div>
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California's complicated water system, and the Legislature needs to act to
manage and protect this vital resource.</span></div>
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drought of historic proportions, water districts and farmers are drilling more
wells and pumping record amounts of groundwater.</span></div>
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eastern Merced County, which the majority of the population in the county
utilizes for its water source. Agriculture uses this same aquifer for
irrigation. Irrigators in the Merced Irrigation District have spent millions of
dollars in recent years on incentive programs to help growers develop highly
efficient irrigation systems. Local land owners paid for this through annual
stand-by fees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Jeremy White, Sacramento
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down-to-the-wire bills that will consume their August, California lawmakers
have a unified message: It's all about the water bond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Legislators return from summer
recess today to a mountain of unfinished business. They have until the end of
the month to decide whether to pass bills and send them to Gov. Jerry Brown.</span></div>
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on west side of Valley making more water from tainted farm drainage</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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the quiet flatlands around here almost oblivious to a $22 million roadside
experiment that turns dirty water into a chance for survival for west San
Joaquin Valley farming.</span></div>
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Moore talks of membranes and clarifiers as he explains the process of
scavenging salt, boron and the infamous natural trace element called selenium<b>.</b></span></div>
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problem in the American is deeper than we thought. We'll look at the West's
deep water challenge.</span></div>
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you've seen it. Prolonged drought in the West has driven the country's largest
reservoir to its lowest level in memory. But the true crisis lies below the
Colorado Basin bedrock. More than 75% of the water lost in the last nine years
came from groundwater supplies. And it may never come back. That's water for 40
million Americans. Water for 4 million acres of farmland. Without drastic
action, the water crisis may permanently change the Western way of life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Prospects for a drought relief
bill to help California farmers appear as likely as the state being deluged by
three straight days of rain. Key federal lawmakers and staff are working behind
the scenes to settle differences in two bills that separately passed the House
and Senate earlier this year.</span></div>
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progress has occurred or what roadblocks remain, but time is running out for
the current congressional session. Congress will be out for the rest of August
and for virtually all of October. In all, House members are scheduled to be in
Washington for votes for only about 25 more days this year.</span></div>
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Dealing with the drought and rising food prices</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Elaine Corn, Sacramento
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recent wonk report that says the third straight year of California drought
won't have much impact on food prices? Or your own grocery bill?</span></div>
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and another in the Midwest affecting the price of beef. Throughout the Plains
states, ranchers have been slaughtering their starving cattle. Add to that a
virus that so far has killed 7 million baby pigs, causing the price of bacon to
spike 32 percent since 2008 with more than half that occurring in a surge the
last two years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The current drought is covering
all of California in extreme ways. It's the third driest year in 106 years of
record keeping according to Jay Lund of the UC Davis Center for Watershed
Sciences.</span></div>
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environmental, agricultural and urban water use have never come at a greater
time. At the recent UC Drought Summit in Sacramento, the general consensus was
that we cannot treat this historic drought as a one-off event since there are
sure to be more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The 1972 Clean Water Act requires
anyone putting anything into a navigable or interstate watercourse or wetland
to get a permit from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of
Engineers. Tributaries to such watercourses are covered, but the word
"tributary" was not defined. Now, for the first time, in pending
regulations, the EPA proposes to do so.</span></div>
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are mentioned explicitly in the rule. They are excluded only if they "do
not contribute flow, either directly or through another water, to" a
watercourse already reached by the EPA's jurisdiction. They don't have to carry
water continuously. "Intermittently" or "ephemerally" is sufficient.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/how-conservation-and-groundwater-management-can-gird-california-for-a-drier-era/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">BLOG: How Conservation and Groundwater Management Can Gird California for a Drier Era</a></span></b> <span style="color: black;">From:<b> Andrew Revkin, New York Times<br /></b></span>It's
way past time for California to come to grips with the possibility that
its extraordinary water woes are the new normal - and essentially the
return of the old normal given the state's climate history, in which
drought has been the rule and the verdant 20th century the exception. In
the weekly update to the U.S. Drought Monitor site yesterday, nearly 80
percent of the state was in extreme or exceptional drought conditions.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2014/08/01/6596450/another-view-status-quo-in-delta.html#mi_rss=Opinion" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">OPINION: Status quo in Delta isn't working for California</a></span></b>
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<span style="color: black;">From:<b> Mark Cowin, Sacramento Bee </b> <br /></span></div>
The California Department of Water Resources and its federal and state
partners on the Bay Delta Conservation Plan have a legal responsibility
to protect threatened species and supply water to millions of
Californians. It is important to correct serious misrepresentations of
facts around those responsibilities.<br /><br />Natural Resources Defense
Council staff attorney Doug Obegi and Defenders of Wildlife program
director Kim Delfino assert that DWR "has lost sight of the bigger
picture and ignored the need for long-term solutions that work within
real fiscal and environmental limits," (" '<a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2014/07/29/6588658/viewpoints-tunnel-vision-wont.html" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Tunnel vision would worsen health of the Delta, California's fish stocks,</a>" Viewpoints, July 29).<b><br /></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2014/08/01/6596658/viewpoints-groundwater-cant-be.html" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">OPINION: Groundwater can't be regulated without increasing surface supplies</a></span></b> <span style="color: black;">From:<b> Dan Nelson, Sacramento Bee<br /></b></span>Increased
groundwater pumping is under growing scrutiny. The devastating
consequences of a third year of drought, coupled with over-regulation of
surface supplies, have increased momentum in Sacramento for state
intervention in local groundwater management. The governor, legislators
and others are calling for potentially far-reaching changes in the use
and management of groundwater - new fees, new requirements and new
bureaucracy to administer it all.<br /><br />Protecting California's
groundwater is vitally important for everyone. However, we cannot
legislate new approaches to groundwater management in isolation; the
surface supply shortages driving the overdraft of groundwater supplies
must also be addressed if we are to successfully protect and restore our
precious groundwater basins.<b><br /></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2014/08/01/6596658/viewpoints-groundwater-cant-be.html" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">OPINION: Groundwater can't be regulated without increasing surface supplies</a></span></b> <span style="color: black;">From:<b> Dan Nelson, Sacramento Bee<br /></b></span>Increased
groundwater pumping is under growing scrutiny. The devastating
consequences of a third year of drought, coupled with over-regulation of
surface supplies, have increased momentum in Sacramento for state
intervention in local groundwater management. The governor, legislators
and others are calling for potentially far-reaching changes in the use
and management of groundwater - new fees, new requirements and new
bureaucracy to administer it all.<br /><br />Protecting California's
groundwater is vitally important for everyone. However, we cannot
legislate new approaches to groundwater management in isolation; the
surface supply shortages driving the overdraft of groundwater supplies
must also be addressed if we are to successfully protect and restore our
precious groundwater basins.<b><br /></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.redbluffdailynews.com/opinion/ci_26250975/increasing-concern-over-valley-water" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">OPINION: Increasing concern over valley water</a></span></b> <span style="color: black;">From:<b> Tony St. Amant, Red Bluff Daily News<br /></b></span>There
is increasing concern in the Northern Sacramento Valley that the
dwindling well water supply that irrigates the valley's vast fruit and
nut orchards and provides water to the large majority of homes and
businesses is at risk of being drained beyond recovery.<br /><br /> The threat comes from the agribusinesses of the western San Joaquin Valley where farmers no longer have enough local water.<b><br /></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.modbee.com/2014/07/31/3466293/neil-hudson-selling-valleys-water.html" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">OPINION: Selling Valley's water to hedge funds won't help us</a></span></b> <span style="color: black;">From:<b> Neil Hudson, Modesto Bee<br /></b></span>Last
week, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack visited the
drought-stricken town of Farmerville in Tulare County. Many homeowners'
wells there have gone dry due to overpumping of the groundwater basin.
In other parts of Tulare County, the land is subsiding from overpumping
and the aquifer has disappeared forever.<br /><br />It was reported that
Vilsack described an "extraordinary" demand from communities in rural
America for capital to invest in wastewater systems, energy projects and
infrastructure development.</div>
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<strong><a href="http://www.presstelegram.com/general-news/20140731/11m-deal-struck-to-conserve-colorado-river-basin" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">$11M deal struck to conserve Colorado River basin</a></strong></div>
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From:<b> Staff, Associated Press<br /></b>Water providers from
four western states and the federal government announced an $11 million
agreement Thursday to fund projects meant to counteract critically low
water levels in the Colorado River basin, which supplies water to about
40 million people in seven states.<br /><br />The Interior Department said
Thursday that local water providers in Arizona, California, Nevada and
Colorado will take part in the deal.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.presstelegram.com/opinion/20140731/water-czar-is-key-to-californias-survival-guest-commentary" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">OPINION: Water czar is key to California's survival</a></span></b>
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<span style="color: black;">From:<b> Denny Freidenrich, Long Beach Press-Telegram </b></span></div>
<br />The broken water main that flooded UCLA Tuesday with millions of
gallons of water was no comedy of errors. When you combine that one-time
event with the state's recent water usage report, well, it's hard to
know whether we should laugh or cry.<br /><br />Not only did California fail
to meet its projected statewide reduction goal, overall water usage
actually increased! Talk about playing with fire (no pun intended). We
are on the verge of a catastrophe and no one seems to care.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.modbee.com/2014/07/31/3466768/federal-agency-determines-merced.html" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Federal agency determines Merced County groundwater sale has 'no significant impact'</a></span></b> <span style="color: black;">From:<b> Ramona Giwargis, Modesto Bee<br /></b></span>
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The U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation on Thursday approved the environmental report for a
multimillion-dollar proposal to allow the transfer and sale of Merced
County groundwater to buyers in Stanislaus County.</div>
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The federal agency
issued a "Finding of No Significant Impact" report, which occurs when an
environmental analysis determines that a project has no major impacts
on the quality of the environment.</div>
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California Farm Water Coalitionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04055772853062724811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326194133117874152.post-76183561828032846982014-07-31T12:29:00.000-07:002014-07-31T12:41:56.908-07:00News articles and links from July 31, 2014<span style="color: #989898;"><b></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">From:<b> Carolee Krieger, San Francisco Chronicle </b></span><br />
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California produces more than 80 percent of the world's almonds,
accounting for an export gross of more than $2.5 billion. Almonds, in
short, are a profitable crop. But there's a big problem with these new
plantings in the San Joaquin Valley. Almonds are thirsty.<br />
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California's
almond orchards use almost 9 percent of the state's agricultural water
supply, or about 3.5 million acre feet. That's enough water to supply
the domestic needs of the Los Angeles Basin and metropolitan San Diego
combined - about 75 percent of the state's population.<b><br /></b><b><i>Coalition response...</i></b>
Krieger seeks to portray farmers as a villain, but despite her efforts,
the fact is California's farmers just don't fit the part. California's
80,000 farms are almost all (96%) family run businesses, & almond
farmers are no different. Growing almonds in the San Joaquin Valley
actually does make a lot of sense, & they have been grown there for
more than 100 years. The San Joaquin Valley is one of the few places in
the world where good soil & a favorable climate have come together
to allow for incredibly efficient production of a crop the markets
demand. Almond farmers have invested heavily in tailoring their farms to
grow almonds. From the equipment they buy to the skills they practice,
this focus on specialization ensures they are the best at what they
do. Far from being a water-wasting crop, almonds are as efficient as
the row crops once extensively criticized by environmentalists. <br />
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The real villains for Krieger this time seem to be the countless
professional scientists, engineers, hydrologists, policy professionals,
& water managers who came together to find ways to mend what was
truly a broken water system during our last major drought with the
Monterey Agreement. The agreement is truly that, an understanding that
brought diverse parties together. It increased flexibility in water
storage, improved urban access to more secure water supplies, &
reduced the red tape involved in transferring water where needed. In
addition, it arranged for a trade. In exchange for precious water
rights, the local, public agencies responsible for daily coordination of
water deliveries took over control of the Kern Fan property owned by
DWR. These local experts would later turn that property into what is now
part of the successful Kern Water Bank.<b><br /></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">From:<b> Alan Bjerga, Bloomberg Television</b></span><br />
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Bloomberg's
Alan Bjerga reports on California's drought and how different areas of
the state are dealing with it. He speaks with Mark Crumpton on "Bottom
Line."<b><br /></b></div>
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From:<b> Staff, CBS LA, KNX 1070</b><br />
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<b><i>[Below are a
series of food and agriculture related radio segments being run on KNX
in Los Angeles. Click the link above to browse the full list of
segments. You can follow the conversation on twitter: #KNXDrought]</i></b><br />
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Running On Empty: <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001eLuYlQ4WrTva1Gn1A4Hq98HOa3shiMZX7xRPpT6xGFDu37RKQcLqi88gbGbg77QJBeCVT0OuaBbcX6SHch6f0lj0jnrxgB4H3y2p6aZusLgxVt7-9sfM3nQYHIlEkbsa6c_r58lCt_50WfPhnebmAVNaK9C1ZUM32KjKezcsdWeftZ5oD4ZZkg==" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Ice Cream</a><br />
Running On Empty: <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001eLuYlQ4WrTva1Gn1A4Hq98HOa3shiMZX7xRPpT6xGFDu37RKQcLqi88gbGbg77QJBeCVT0OuaBbcX6SHch6f0lj0jnrxgB4H3y2p6aZusLgxVt7-9sfM3nQYHIlEkbsa6c_r58lCt_50WfPhnebmAWB0losPzm9Wn-Pemj8h2vjJkXhiNUQe4w==" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Food Prices</a><br />
Running On Empty: <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001eLuYlQ4WrTva1Gn1A4Hq98HOa3shiMZX7xRPpT6xGFDu37RKQcLqi88gbGbg77QJBeCVT0OuaBbcX6SHch6f0lj0jnrxgB4H3y2p6aZusLgxVt7-9sfM3nQYHIlEkbsa6c_r58lCt_50WfPhnebmAfzRXXSuRF4E-LLIBLa5U0OibZchqs-kSEN8BhKvQ3ykMmDZpwcHK-zu3Zp9P_7Bm9sZA8EWrLAy" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">California Grocers Association's Dave Heylen</a><br />
Running On Empty: <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001eLuYlQ4WrTva1Gn1A4Hq98HOa3shiMZX7xRPpT6xGFDu37RKQcLqi88gbGbg77QJBeCVT0OuaBbcX6SHch6f0lj0jnrxgB4H3y2p6aZusLgxVt7-9sfM3nQYHIlEkbsa6c_r58lCt_50WfPhnebmAVl68PcH5dENcdIblpDMt6SdwhmDMGTuL8dJHuFFIxbYojsyUhKKjDs=" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Who's Watching The Water?</a><br />
Running On Empty: <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001eLuYlQ4WrTva1Gn1A4Hq98HOa3shiMZX7xRPpT6xGFDu37RKQcLqi88gbGbg77QJBeCVT0OuaBbcX6SHch6f0lj0jnrxgB4H3y2p6aZusLgxVt7-9sfM3nQYHIlEkbsa6c_r58lCt_50WfPhnebmARyvqDERFabiMIx3bJWJS2L1KV1bWorYmA==" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Two Farmers</a></div>
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<span style="color: black;">From:<b> Paul Vercammen, CNN</b></span><br />
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With
water sources drying up, farmers are looking for underground springs to
support their livelihoods. Steve Arthur works in California's San
Joaquin Valley, drilling for water wells on drought-ravaged farms and
ranches.<br />
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"It's just going crazy; people are starting to panic," said Arthur, the owner of Arthur & Orum Well Drilling Inc.</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><br /></b></span>This
week, Stanislaus County's leaders and officials have shown more
initiative, more compassion and more willingness to help residents than
we've seen since the start of our drought and ensuing groundwater
crisis.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">From:<b> Sandra Postel, National Geographic</b></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><b><br /></b></span>Let's
step back for a minute and consider the implications of the study
released last week on the depletion of groundwater in the Colorado River
Basin.<br />
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For anyone concerned about the future of the American
West, the findings of this study - which was published online in the
journal Geophysical Research Letters and conducted by a team of
scientists from NASA, the University of California-Irvine, and the
National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado-can make
the heart pound.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">From:<b> Carolyn Jones, San Francisco Chronicle</b></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><b><br /></b></span>The
state's plan to build a pair of 35-mile tunnels under the delta would
cause the extinction of winter-run chinook salmon, steep declines in
dozens of other species and devastate water quality in San Francisco
Bay, an environmental group said Wednesday.</div>
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Water Supply</div>
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<span style="color: black;">From:<b> Eric Thomas, KABC 7</b></span><br />
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A
controversial bill that could impact where millions of people in the
Bay Area get their water is moving its way through Sacramento. The
changes are proposed along a stretch of the Mokelumne River in the
Sierra foothills. That river provides millions of homes with drinking
water from the mountains to the Central Valley and the East Bay. Some
people are wondering if a move to save the river could leave others high
and dry.<b><br /></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">From:<b> Rebecca Thompson, Fresno Bee</b></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><b><br /></b></span>It
was with great interest I read the article and editorial on water
usage in Fresno. The 20% drop in per capita water usage since the
installation of water meters in Fresno is commendable. However, the
current Fresno per capita water usage of 240 gallons exceeds the state
average of 196 gallons and the United States Geological Survey national
average of 100 gallons.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">From:<b> Jeff Barnard, Associated Press</b></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><b><br /></b></span>A
federal agency said Wednesday it will release extra water into Northern
California's Klamath and Trinity rivers once salmon start dying from
drought-related disease, but not before.<br />
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U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation spokesman Louis Moore said from Sacramento, California, that
the decision came under terms of a 2012 emergency water plan, and after
consulting with tribes, irrigators and other agencies.</div>
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Bee</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">There's no question that
California is facing one of the worst droughts in its history. As a state that
uses more water than we have available - even in "wet" years - there
are some critical decisions we need to make about how to move forward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">But as we decide how to spend
billions of dollars on the water solutions needed to carry us into the future,
it's critical that we address the short-term needs of this historic drought
without getting tunnel vision and losing sight of what's going to be best in
the long run for the businesses and individuals who live and work here.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Coalition response...</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"> Doug Obegi's portfolio option doesn't provide sufficient water to
maintain food production on much of the highly productive land on the San
Joaquin Valley's Westside. Along with those farms come jobs for tens of
thousands of people in communities like Firebaugh, Huron, San Joaquin and
Mendota. Obegi's callous disregard for the people and communities that depend
on agriculture is utterly shameful. Rather than seeking options that sustain
farmland and rural economies that have produced food and fiber since the late
1800s, Obegi and co-author Kim Delfino would rather see millions of acre-feet
of water flushed out to the ocean with no measurable economic or environmental
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Carolee Krieger, San
Francisco Chronicle </b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">California produces more than 80
percent of the world's almonds, accounting for an export gross of more than
$2.5 billion. Almonds, in short, are a profitable crop. But there's a big
problem with these new plantings in the San Joaquin Valley. Almonds are thirsty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">California's almond orchards use
almost 9 percent of the state's agricultural water supply, or about 3.5 million
acre feet. That's enough water to supply the domestic needs of the Los Angeles
Basin and metropolitan San Diego combined - about 75 percent of the state's
population.</span></div>
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Irrigation District leaders hustling to get growers more water</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Garth Stapley, Modesto
Bee</b></span></div>
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Irrigation District customers can wait to water crops as late as Oct. 3. That's
two weeks later than initially planned, giving trees a better chance of
surviving the drought and being healthy enough to produce again next year.</span></div>
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to accommodate another round of farmer-to-farmer water transfers with a Sept. 2
application deadline. And the district might offer to sell some extra water
reserved in April by a few farmers who haven't asked or paid for it since then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Charles Feldman, CBS LA,
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">California is at a "tipping
point," say leading climatologists, as a historic drought enters its
fourth year with no end in sight.</span></div>
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and scary: For the first time in 15 years, the entire state finds itself under
drought conditions; and our last official "rain year" in Southern
California was one of the driest in 500 years, based on an analysis of tree
rings. It's "very unusual" to have these extremely dry years, says
Lynn Ingram, professor of Earth and Planetary Science at UC Berkeley.</span></div>
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gathered in the Valley Tuesday to push for a water bond for the November
ballot. The group called for support in the middle of a dry orchard to show the
drought's devastation.</span></div>
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from a lack of water to irrigate their crops this summer are being hit with an
annual acreage fee to meet a mandated program to monitor water runoff from
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Quality Control Board in September of 2013 adopted new waste discharge
requirements to protect ground and surface water from irrigated agricultural
discharges for the Tulare Lake Basin area. That led to a plan to monitor groundwater
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Diego Farmer Recognized by White House</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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invited to the White House Tuesday to be recognized as a "Champion of
Change." As NBC 7's Greg Bledsoe explains, this farm uses 80 percent less
water than conventional lettuce farms. <b>[Video]</b></span></div>
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Rafael) today led a letter to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
outlining a strong opposition to the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). The
letter, cosigned by California Reps. George Miller, Mike Thompson, Doris
Matsui, John Garamendi, Barbara Lee, Jackie Speier, and Jerry McNerney, was
offered as part of the public review and comment period, which ends today.</span></div>
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Garamendi Argues BDCP's Twin Tunnels Project Fails to Include Full Range of
Better Alternatives as Required by State & Federal Law in Public Comments
for Environmental Report</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> John Garamendi, Office
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Yesterday, Congressman John
Garamendi (D-Fairfield, CA), a leader on water policy in California, released
his public comments to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) on the
Governor's Bay Delta Conservation Plan's (BDCP) proposed twin tunnels
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drought: As land sinks, farmers' brainstorm on water</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Kevin Fagan, San
Francisco Chronicle</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Case Vlot pulls up groundwater
through deep wells to keep his corn and alfalfa crops alive. Chase Hurley runs
a water company nearby that sells river water to farmers who can't depend on
wells. Normally the two would rarely talk to each other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">But that was before the drought,
and before the land began to sink beneath their feet. Now they and every farmer
for miles around are talking to each other all the time, brainstorming in ways
they've never had to before.</span></div>
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drilling deeper for water as drought drags on</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> David Pierson, Los
Angeles Times</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">On a dusty clearing between a
fallow wheat field and wilting orange groves, Steve Arthur's crew of two
mud-splattered well drillers worked furiously to deliver a lifeline to another
despondent farmer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Using a diesel-powered rig that
rumbled like a moving subway car, the workers bore deeper and deeper into the
packed clay in hopes of tapping a steady supply of groundwater - about the only
source of water that remains for many growers in this parched rural community
about 40 miles north of Bakersfield.</span></div>
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California's urgent need to change approach to groundwater</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Staff, Long Beach
Press-Telegram</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">"Everyone's talking about
water. For once, they're saying the same thing" is the motto of a
California group called the Groundwater Voices Coalition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Well, not exactly saying the same
thing when it comes to all things water in our state. Just mention the prospect
of an upcoming water bond, for instance, and you've got the same old fighting
words: Too much! Not enough! Not a dime for Delta tunnels!</span></div>
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Will we be wiser about water, now that it's scarce?</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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California make us smarter? Many are feeling the pain of a dwindling supply of
water: Farmland sits idle; jobs are lost; cities are forced to make conservation
efforts; politicians grope for solutions. Beyond the rhetoric of who stands
first in line for this fluid treasure and how best to allocate a scare
resource, the reality is that we live in an arid land and climate change will
force us to live and work differently. But are we wiser?</span></div>
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California drought requires urgent action</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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West is suffering from severe drought, then why have the responses to it been
weak and largely ineffective? The answers are as complicated as California's
water system itself, with our wildly diverse sources and uses of water, prices
and water rights, institutions, and more. But here are some observations.</span></div>
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water worries rise as Lake Mead falls</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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Today </b></span></div>
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Keeten, who has been visiting here since the late 1970s, the retreating
shoreline of Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam is a shock to witness.</span></div>
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58-year-old truck driver from Kenesaw, Neb., says, peering over the side of the
massive concrete dam on the Colorado River. "Nowadays you've got to be
careful when you are out on a boat because of all the exposed ground.''</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Before they left Sacramento for
summer recess, legislators said they would work together to hammer out a new
water bond bill when they returned in August. This would replace the $11.14
billion proposal currently on the November ballot, which has already been
delayed twice.</span></div>
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Jerry Brown have put forward conflicting ideas that may be difficult to
reconcile, we have confidence our leadership can get the job done. But it will
be up to us to hold our elected leaders accountable because if they don't pass
a workable water bond deal, we risk devastating consequences.</span></div>
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Bee</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">With California continuing to
endure three straight years of drought with no end in sight, we must have a new
water bond that provides us a safe and reliable water supply. We know that the
state will continue to grow in population and the demand for water will
increase. Even after the negotiations to pass a new bond failed in June, I am
pleased that legislators like Sen. Anthony Cannella, R-Ceres, have taken such
an active role in keeping the water bond discussion alive.</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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New engineering project last thing the Delta needs</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Like the Florida Everglades, the
Bay Delta watershed is a national treasure. Every Californian has a stake in
the outcome of the fierce controversy over the re-engineering of our unique and
precious estuary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The Bay Delta Conservation Plan
is 40,000 pages long. To keep it simple, the $25 billion water-transfer project
is based on a single assumption: that California's water-ecosystem crisis is
caused by a lack -- a lack -- of engineering projects in the Delta watershed.
As if the Delta needs more steel, more pumps, more cement (and more farmers
dispossessed through eminent domain). The peripheral tunnels, the industrial
heart of the project, do not replace, they actually augment hundreds of dams,
aqueducts and pumps that already send water to corporate farms and cities south
of the Delta.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Coalition response...</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"> The situation in the Delta isn't working for anyone - not farmers, not
urban water users and certainly not for fish. The legislature recognized this
and passed the Delta Reform Act in 2009. A comprehensive solution that
addresses water supply reliability and ecosystem benefits is the goal of the
Bay Delta Conservation Plan and is the result of the legislature's action four
years ago. It's time to take a realistic approach to fixing the degraded
ecosystem that makes the Delta useless for two-thirds of California's
population and millions of acres of farmland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Jerry Meral, Fresno Bee</b></span></div>
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bonds for California, San Joaquin Valley legislators have a lot of leverage.
But if they and their colleagues fail to reach agreement when the Legislature
goes back to work in August, the Valley won't benefit and the entire state
could suffer the consequences. Voters expect a positive legislative response to
the drought, and a good water bond would be the best response.</span></div>
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water needs - some related to immediate drought relief but others that will
continue producing benefits for the state for many years to come. The governor
has proposed a $6 billion bond issue for the November ballot that would help
finance a full spectrum of much-needed projects for water quality, water supply
reliability, increased water storage, conservation and recycling, storm-water
capture and environmental enhancement.</span></div>
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The Clock is Ticking to Craft a Good, BDCP-Neutral Water Bond for California</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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will almost certainly vote on whether to authorize billions of dollars of
taxpayer spending for a water bond. But crucially, the next few weeks will
determine what water bond will be on the ballot in November - how much borrowing
it authorizes, what it spends that money on - and whether it is a good
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wholesaler rallying local support for Bay Delta project</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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cities have backed a $25-billion plan to build two 35-mile tunnels to move
water more efficiently from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to water
purveyors serving 25 million people in the state, including more than 600,000
Ventura County residents.</span></div>
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about one thing: "There has been considerable misinformation promulgated
about the BDCP (Bay Delta Conservation Plan), which has confused the
public." Much of the misinformation has come from Cowin's Department of
Water Resources and the Natural Resource Agency.</span></div>
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levels drop in Southwestern U.S. in ongoing drought</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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the southwestern United States have receded dramatically amid ongoing drought
that has parched states from Oklahoma to the Pacific Coast and is costing
California billions in lost crops and jobs, a new study shows.</span></div>
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the University of California, Irvine, shows that groundwater in the Colorado
River basin has dropped by 40 million acre-feet over the past five years, the
equivalent of two of the nation's largest reservoirs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Low warm water conditions from
the drought are starting to kill salmon in Northern California's Klamath Basin
- the site of a massive fish kill in 2002.</span></div>
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the Salmon River on found 55 dead adult salmon and more dead juveniles than
would be expected this time of year, Sara Borok, an environmental scientist for
the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, said Thursday. About 700 live
fish were counted in cool pools fed by springs.</span></div>
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Problem is real; so are solutions</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> S. Garcia; P. Tice,
Modesto Bee </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">I recently returned from a family
camping spot at New Melones Lake, which we have visited in the past and is one
of our area's largest water reserves. I was speechless when I saw the water
level of this once majestic lake. I have heard much about the current drought,
but have not felt affected by it at a personal level. When I turn on a faucet
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California Farm Water Coalitionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04055772853062724811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326194133117874152.post-10233136485183620332014-07-24T11:12:00.000-07:002014-07-24T11:12:05.234-07:00News articles and links from July 24, 2014
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Valley, the world's most productive agricultural region, are paying as much as
10 times more for water than they did before the state's record drought cut
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acre-foot from about $140 a year ago in the Fresno-based Westlands Water
District, which represents 700 farms, said Gayle Holman, a spokeswoman. North
of Sacramento, the Western Canal Water District is selling it for double the
usual price: $500 per acre-foot, about 326,000 gallons (1.2 million liters).</span></div>
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asked restaurants not to serve water unless diners ask for it. He's letting
lawns at the state Capitol turn brown. Farmers in the Central Valley are
getting just a trickle of the water they usually do. Conspicuous water wasters
- commercial and residential - face fines of $500 a day.</span></div>
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New engineering project last thing the Delta needs</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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Bay Delta watershed is a national treasure. Every Californian has a stake in
the outcome of the fierce controversy over the re-engineering of our unique and
precious estuary.</span></div>
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is 40,000 pages long. To keep it simple, the $25 billion water-transfer project
is based on a single assumption: that California's water-ecosystem crisis is
caused by a lack -- a lack -- of engineering projects in the Delta watershed.
As if the Delta needs more steel, more pumps, more cement (and more farmers
dispossessed through eminent domain). The peripheral tunnels, the industrial
heart of the project, do not replace, they actually augment hundreds of dams,
aqueducts and pumps that already send water to corporate farms and cities south
of the Delta.</span></div>
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raised at the Imperial Irrigation District's Board of Directors meeting on
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less than 50 percent of its annual Colorado River water entitlement so far this
year, how is the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation projecting an annual
over-consumption of nearly 38,000 acre-feet? That projection is especially
troubling for IID officials and farmers because any amount of water that the
district uses in excess of its entitlement needs to be repaid.</span></div>
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the list in the latest survey of Californians' environmental worries. In a
statewide poll conducted during the second week of July, more than a third of
respondents (35 percent) cited water supply and drought as "the most important
environmental issue facing California today." That more than doubled the
second most popular response, which was air pollution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">It's the first time since the
annual survey was launched in 2000 that Californians have cited water supply as
their top concern, according to Mark Baldassare at the Public Policy Institute
of California, which conducts the annual "Californians and Their
Environment" poll. Even when asked the question in the drought year of
2009, only 18 percent pinpointed water supply as their biggest concern.</span></div>
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finds Californians back smaller water bond</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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California voters support an $11.1 billion water bond slated for the November
ballot, but public support would grow if the bond comes with a smaller
price-tag, according to survey results released late Wednesday.</span></div>
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California poll comes as lawmakers are negotiating changes to a funding package
for water projects that legislative leaders see as too large and full of
pork-barrel spending to win voter approval.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Mark Walker, San Diego
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say they support mandatory restrictions on water use and back a massive state
bond to increase water supplies.<a href="http://www.utsandiego.com/news/most-recent/"><span style="color: #386eff;">http://www.utsandiego.com/news/most-recent/</span></a></span></div>
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in a Public Policy Institute of California poll that comes as the San Diego
County Water Authority is expected to recommend limiting outdoor watering
throughout the county to reach an overall cutback in the region's usage of up to
20 percent.</span></div>
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has Public Works Director Mike Houghton concerned. He's the man responsible for
overseeing Manteca's municipal water system. "My worry is the cooler
weather will get people to thinking they don't have to conserve as much,"
Houghton said. "We are still in the middle of a severe drought."</span></div>
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the worst drought years in the state's history, Madera County officials are
preparing to take steps to maintain local control of its water issues.
Government officials are in the process of forming a Joint Powers Authority and
reviewing whether there will be a moratorium on agricultural wells.</span></div>
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JPA. "It's an effort to have local enforcement," Hoevertsz said.</span></div>
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say we need to rethink how we go about "saving nature." We should not
attempt to restore a wounded meadow, estuary or wetland to some legendary
pristine state, they say. Instead, resource managers should accept that human
footprints are everywhere and manage ecosystems for the species and functions
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denied a rehearing before the entire court, leaving March's panel decision in
place. The denial sets the case up for a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Longtime Liberty Blog readers will recall that PLF previously sought Supreme
Court review of the case on our Commerce Clause challenge. Although that issue
is no longer live, there should be plenty of issues remaining to interest the
judges.</span></div>
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from the Pacific through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and up rivers, but
dams were built, blocking 90 percent of passageways to their historical
spawning areas at the heart of California. By the 1990s, the fish were nearly
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Major water districts in
California are quietly considering using property taxes -- and possibly
raising them without a vote of the public -- to help fund Gov. Jerry
Brown's $25 billion plan to build two massive tunnels through the
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Most property tax hikes
require a two-thirds vote, as required under California's landmark
Proposition 13, which voters passed in 1978. But the water agencies
contend they are not bound by that requirement.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">From:<b> John Holland, Modesto Bee</b></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><b><br /></b></span>Leaders
of the Turlock Irrigation District, which has provided Tuolumne River
water to the area since 1900, got a look Tuesday at another possible
source. They toured the city of Turlock's sewage treatment plant, which
turns out water fit for use on crops.<b><br /></b></div>
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From:<b> Antoine Abou-Diwan, Imperial Valley Press</b><br />
<b><br /></b>The
Imperial Irrigation District has expanded its on-farm water conservation
initiative from an annual program to a multi-year endeavor. The program
pays Imperial Valley farmers to adopt water-efficient irrigation
processes in their fields, like sprinklers and tailwater recovery
systems. <br />
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The board's action Tuesday addressed a common criticism
of the program: How can farmers recoup their investments in technology
like sprinklers and sub-surface drip irrigation, when the IID offers the
program on a rigid, year-by-year basis?<b><br /></b></div>
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From:<b> Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee</b><br />
<b><br /></b>State and federal
wildlife agencies Tuesday unveiled ambitious plans to restore endangered
salmon and steelhead fish in California's Central Valley, including
returning them to some habitats where they were shut out decades ago by
dams and other development.<br />
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Although the two plans differ
somewhat, officials said they both aim to prevent extinction of three
species: endangered Sacramento River winter-run Chinook salmon,
threatened Central Valley spring-run Chinook salmon, and threatened
Central Valley steelhead.<b><br /></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">From:<b> J.N. Sbranti, Modesto Bee</b></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><b><br /></b></span>The
Merced Irrigation District expects to pump significantly less
groundwater this year than it did last year, in part because the
irrigation season will be about eight weeks shorter.<br />
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"Our
projected total is to pump just over 40,000 acre-feet," district General
Manager John Sweigard said. His district pumped more than 56,700
acre-feet of groundwater during 2013. By comparison, it pumped 33,465
acre-feet this January through June.<b><br /></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">From:<b> Dennis Taylor, Salinas Californian</b></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><b><br /></b></span>Unbridled
pumping of well water along the Central Coast and in the Central Valley
could have dire consequences for the agricultural economy, according to
a new study released by the University of California, Davis.<br />
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According
to the study, titled "Drought Impact Study: California agriculture
faces greatest water loss ever seen," Monterey County is faring better
than areas around Tulare County and other Central Valley communities.
Growers there, after their Water Project was shut down to divert water
to people, tapped into ground water basins that are even more perilous
than basins here.<b><br /></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">From:<b> Staff, Porterville Recorder</b></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><b><br /></b></span>If
groundwater management is the wave of the future in California, the
Tulare County Supervisors want to make sure they, and local
stakeholders, have a say in how it plays out.<br />
<br />
A proposed state
law that would regulate the pumping of groundwater in basins where the
water table is being depleted was one of the topics at a 90-minute
meeting on water issues Tuesday. The study session was held three years
into a severe drought that has curtailed surface water supplies and
forced many farmers in the San Joaquin Valley to resort to pumping
groundwater for irrigation.<b><br /></b></div>
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water issues, 1 vote each isn't always fairest</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">There's so much going on with
groundwater, it's a whirlwind! OK, a whirlwind you can't see and probably
haven't heard of, but a whirlwind nonetheless.</span></div>
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have been abusing our aquifers for more than a generation. Mother Nature has,
so far, bailed us out with a few wet years between droughts to refill the tank.
Not this year.</span></div>
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24 hours a day during the California drought. They're digging wells for
desperate farmers.</span></div>
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in Lancaster said his company is booked for the next two years. In business
since the 1960s, Rottman said his company has never been this busy. As a result
of the drought crisis, farmers are now looking below their land to save what's
above.</span></div>
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Why Has the Response to the California Drought Been so Weak?</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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Geographic - <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/"><span style="color: #386eff;">ScienceBlogs.com</span></a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">In the past few weeks, I have had
been asked the same question by reporters, friends, strangers, and even a
colleague who posts regularly on this very ScienceBlogs site (the prolific and
thoughtful Greg Laden): why, if the California drought is so bad, has the
response been so tepid?</span></div>
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question (and of course, it presumes (1) that the drought is bad; and (2) the
response has been tepid). In many ways, the response is as complicated as
California's water system itself, with widely and wildly diverse sources of
water, uses of water, prices and water rights, demands, institutions, and more.
But here are some overlapping and relevant answers.</span></div>
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board to discuss on-farm and systemwide water efficiency measures</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Antoine Abou-Diwan,
Imperial Valley Press</b></span></div>
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Board of Directors will consider a staff recommendation to make the IID's pilot
on-farm water conservation program permanent at today's public meeting.</span></div>
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conservation program pays farmers to install and implement water-efficient
irrigation measures in their fields, like sprinklers and drip irrigation systems.
It's funded by the San Diego County Water Authority and the Coachella Valley
Water District under the terms of the water transfer.</span></div>
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Crops With Dividends: Financiers Transforming Strawberries Into Securities</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Alexandra Stevenson, New
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">His boots were caked with mud
when Thomas S. T. Gimbel, a longtime hedge fund executive, slipped in a
strawberry patch. It was the plumpness of a strawberry that had distracted him.</span></div>
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fund division of Credit Suisse, now spends more time discussing crop yields
than stock or bond yields.</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
California Farm Water Coalitionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04055772853062724811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326194133117874152.post-40310567356160189492014-07-21T11:55:00.005-07:002014-07-21T11:55:46.913-07:00News, Articles, and Links from July 21, 2014<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="LETTER.BLOCK15"></a><br />
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<span style="color: black;">From:<b> Staff, Sacramento Bee</b></span><br />
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If
Gov. Jerry Brown and lawmakers want voters to weigh in this year on a
multibillion-dollar water bond - a big if - they will need to compromise
on what may seem like an arcane point: Who controls the money earmarked
for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta?<br />
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Brown proposed a $6 billion bond after a $10.5 billion proposal fell shy of the two-thirds votes needed in the Senate.<b><br /></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">From:<b> P. Wenger; D. Fink, New York Times </b> </span></div>
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Re "<a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001DNb7eqQ-_-UhHwchou6Fonh3e_71_f2kVcpuubLcA9ALgtpB32K2qZ-C7AlpcQ1cEWvGGiTO_tHpfcPSbg0HGpCu-UPOFOFzrFMf7XNFOO3aG3MfrwtqX_ZyAn9eOKapVpQ-u0xsfys5JPBuEY5To_N3zAy3XxjjYtuhxK1ZN7WPjSm-UtIH7CKqTv_qJckw" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Forceful Steps Amid a Severe Drought</a>" (news article, Jan. 16):<br />
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The
harsh program to fine California residents for outdoor water use is the
unfortunate result of decades of inappropriate water policies in the
state. The current crisis has been developing for years and was entirely
predictable.<b><br /></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001DNb7eqQ-_-UhHwchou6Fonh3e_71_f2kVcpuubLcA9ALgtpB32K2qZ-C7AlpcQ1cEWvGGiTO_tEg89cAxsBiNwPKCuEUVO4Ls81iysgeQRIvwZSPhsWypbzkBP3iQrGIzYjO-2vkugbx3H1FK-MULvUIkThIwXVgGr6Vavz0WSEK2fSWwG97LToWFAVM7aB0pwZ6nTG3YXLTmD1U2w-Re6P0VYgNhmjv3LX9CqRiBA8nbmk-jWTDpJC-6B3i7ps8HktYS9ZPRhIoCLBiUsI6mNSmSSqSY-yGCcj7sfDsQ1U=" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">OPINION: BDCP a scientifically sound solution for water shortage</a></span></b><br />
<span style="color: black;">From:<b> Mark Cowin, Tracy Press</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><b> </b></span>The
state of California is taking decisive and comprehensive action to
protect and develop water supplies throughout the state, both to manage
the impact of the drought and to plan for the long term. The Bay Delta
Conservation Plan is just one piece in the Brown administration's
overall water portfolio - but it is a vitally important piece.<b><br /></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;"> From:<b> Sharon Bernstein, Reuters</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><b> </b></span>California's
drought - its worst in decades - is likely to hold steady through the
summer months and may not ease in the fall even with an anticipated El
Nino weather pattern, a federal drought expert said on Friday.<br />
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Extreme
drought conditions have enveloped California - the most populous U.S.
state and an important agricultural center - since the beginning of the
year.<b><br /></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">From:<b> Eric Larson, San Diego Union Tribune</b></span><br />
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California's
residents are beginning to understand the severity of the drought that
has relegated snow and rain to relic status. Farmers, however, by
profession must be weather watchers and don't have to come to a new
realization that successive dry winters leave a terrible shadow. The
impact to the state's farms that normally produce about half of our
nations fruits and vegetables will be terrible.<b><br /></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">From:<b> John Holland, Modesto Bee</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><b> </b></span>If
your kid came home with a 95 percent test score, you'd likely say,
"Great job." California will maintain that much of its agricultural
output this year, despite the severe drought, according to a UC Davis
study released Tuesday. But that's little cause for celebration.<b><br /></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">From:<b> Robert Rodriguez, Fresno Bee</b></span><br />
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This
time of year, May Vu's farm in Sanger should be carpeted with blooming
flowers and a bounty of vegetables. But a failing irrigation pump and a
nearly empty well have dried up Vu's farm and with it, her source of
income.<br />
<br />
The 58-year-old Vu knows she is up against major
obstacles as California struggles through one of the worst droughts in
its history.<b><br /></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">From:<b> Staff, Associated Press</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><b> </b></span>U.S.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack visited drought-stricken homeowners
on Friday in Central California, saying drought and climate change would
require major investment to secure future water supplies.<b><br /></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">From:<b> Rick Elkins, Porterville Recorder</b></span><br />
<br />
Farmers
along side of the Friant-Kern Canal that runs from Millerton Lake to
the Kern River in Bakersfield have been using the canal to move water,
but most are restricted to move water only within their own irrigation
district.<br />
<br />
At several different points growers are pumping water
into the cement-lined canal, then taking it out a little further down.
The Friant-Kern Canal runs 155-miles from Millerton Lake above Fresno to
the Kern River near Bakersfield.<b><br /></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">From:<b> Staff, Chico Enterprise-Record</b></span><br />
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When
the State Water Resources Control Board sat down this week to consider
authorizing fines of up to $500 for water wasters, it had ample evidence
to support the decision because we, "as a state," aren't doing a very
good job at water conservation.<b><br /></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;"> From:<b> David Little, Chico Enterprise-Record</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><b> </b></span>California
is running out of water and we need someone to blame. Mother Nature is
just not a convenient enough target. We need real people. They're
handing out $500 tickets now. This is serious. Who caused this?<b><br /></b></div>
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From:<b> Sam Sanders, NPR</b><br />
<br />
This January, after the driest
calendar year in California history, Gov. Jerry Brown declared a
drought emergency. He called on residents to reduce their water intake
by 20 percent.<br />
<br />
But downtown Los Angeles doesn't look like a city
devastated by the state's worst drought in decades. The city is green
with landscaping, and fountains are running. People still water their
lawns, wash their cars and fill their pools.<b><br /></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">From:<b> Lisa Krieger, San Jose Mercury News</b></span><br />
<br />
Rumors
drifted across the parched Central Valley that a bidding war for water
might push auction prices as high as $3,000 an acre-foot, up from $60 in
a normal year.<br />
<br />
Yet, Ray Flanders needed water to keep his
orchards alive. So this spring he sealed his bid in an envelope, climbed
into his truck and drove 70 miles to hand-deliver it to the Madera
Irrigation District, which had water saved from 2013.<b><br /></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001DNb7eqQ-_-UhHwchou6Fonh3e_71_f2kVcpuubLcA9ALgtpB32K2qZ-C7AlpcQ1cEWvGGiTO_tGZWh-fbA4MSbgeLtajpd-PyzEU9jsTUpKCZvFanZMWnwTOkG5IiliqqL_-gAYsJbREItCLaixEKvyLI2zf1vK9j2YeQoSDQBfUY7EEk6qn6PM6k6G_HV7MQsuecRiN4ropaz_JF6IWFQXH9UunMeyfqBtQQbZWrCw=" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">West-side San Joaquin Valley water calamity may be unfolding</a></span></b> <span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">From:<b> Mark Grossi, Fresno Bee</b></span><br />
<br />
After
the water table below Stratford dropped an astounding 100 feet in the
past two years, it set off a slow-motion collapse of the ground
underfoot, crushing part of a town well.<br />
<br />
Repairs were made
quickly, but the crumpled well holds significance beyond this Kings
County town of 1,200. After three dry seasons -- the last one being one
of the driest on record -- summer havoc has begun for west San Joaquin
Valley groundwater.<b><br /></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">From:<b> Vance Kennedy, Modesto Bee </b> </span></div>
<br />
Are farmers in the foothills taking water from farmers in the valley? Yes, they are. We'll get to why, but here are some facts:<br />
<br />
First,
farmers in the foothills have three sources of water: rain, which is 12
to 16 inches per normal year; groundwater directly below the property
(that water occupies about 15 percent of the "pore space" between the
rocks); and underground flow from the aquifers that are shared with
adjacent properties. Some of those "properties" actually have rivers
flowing through them or reservoirs sitting on them.<b><br /></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001DNb7eqQ-_-UhHwchou6Fonh3e_71_f2kVcpuubLcA9ALgtpB32K2qZ-C7AlpcQ1cEWvGGiTO_tFUl4EMgmJeOPdRzDvJaEg2irzfKzvBLh-h-SX5U2F8ldqVodLY3zTh9_lL1nTwOH484ahXTbfmrDp4nuWMTWRvm8EdntIJycVq-BnvvsEmME22v5rQWMRi31eR-oJs2Ow=" shape="rect" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Stanislaus County irrigation districts pumping record amounts of groundwater</a></span></b> <span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">From:<b> J.N. Sbranti, Modesto Bee</b></span><br />
<br />
Despite
widespread concerns about declining groundwater levels, some Stanislaus
County irrigation districts have dramatically increased well pumping
this year.<br />
<br />
Modesto Irrigation District wells pumped 311 percent
more groundwater this January through June than they did during the same
months last year.<b><br /></b></div>
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Court judge issued a ruling Tuesday requiring regulation of groundwater pumping
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California hardest hit by the drought could begin to see their wells run dry a
year from now if rain and snow remain scarce in the agriculturally rich state,
according to a study released Tuesday.</span></div>
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University of California, Davis professor emeritus of agriculture and resource
economics, urged farmers to take the lead in managing groundwater to irrigate
crops and sustain California's $44.7 billion farming industry.</span></div>
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of California study showed that the current drought ravaging California this
year is causing the "greatest absolute reduction in water availability for
California agriculture ever seen,"<span style="color: #0e37a5;"> Mashable</span>
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drought will deprive the state's thirsty farmers of 6.6 million acre-feet of
surface water, which works out to a whopping 2.2 trillion gallons - enough to
fill 60 million average-sized swimming pools," the site said. "Farmers
are making up for some of this lost water by pumping as much groundwater as
they can tap into, which will diminish the state's ability to withstand future
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of California study showed that the current drought ravaging California this
year is causing the "greatest absolute reduction in water availability for
California agriculture ever seen,"<span style="color: #0e37a5;"> Mashable</span>
reported.</span></div>
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drought will deprive the state's thirsty farmers of 6.6 million acre-feet of
surface water, which works out to a whopping 2.2 trillion gallons - enough to
fill 60 million average-sized swimming pools," the site said.
"Farmers are making up for some of this lost water by pumping as much
groundwater as they can tap into, which will diminish the state's ability to
withstand future droughts."</span></div>
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state's biggest water user</span></a></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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jail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">California hasn't
quite come to threatening unrepentant water wasters with time in the big house.
But emergency rules <span style="color: #0e37a5;">adopted by the State Water
Resources Control Board Tuesday </span>do take the state a lot closer to
criminalizing the squandering of a precious resource.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">It's an unpleasant
but necessary measure. <span style="color: #0e37a5;">As a study by UC Davis </span>makes
clear, the ongoing drought hurts the state's economy. It's a pain that trickles
down to all of us, even those already doing their part to cut back.</span></div>
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that agriculture has been let off the hook.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001JQ2hd8tZhGYvp2Cf7Sy4P1j4f9vAO4j60-ItY6C1Z6V7P2wt7d9zH0JEHaJnqKUqmlIEfRQkcUaNhdrpf33VWwlQ2CtT_KGrDlRH1cAfrkLWgfUxd8VV6gWG2oKIzOGUO8HDVOlw1x7Ud-vTnfd-XafCTO_3Tk-zVjZmioZB19URwyrcf2SmHXMT8amULt85rJe0IT-7Ij9ZZ8W2WS88pLnLe_6LchTIl27PxZmuTL8Y4FwjmMDBVM_jzkk9_on3oN8Bak-htiX4UGcVrYFIiwm0byNrSRO9b-ZWykiYn2P8t-_2tfKKvA==&c=pgt82qSu2O4RIY22uhliVDYPZZQZnpMJP5bl4dpZvUk5DQbM5TG2lw==&ch=zbgwTiuPDczkaWfY9PkObHSytez-gs9IvgFbt6xun8TL38arP35cfw=="><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Valley districts blamed for ignoring water
conservation law</span></a></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <b>Katharine Mieszkowski, Fresno Bee</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">After largely
ignoring a conservation law passed during the last drought, some of
California's largest agricultural water districts are facing a lawsuit that
would force them to measure how much water farmers use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The 2009 law was
designed to push the state's biggest water users to conserve by closely
monitoring their use. Then, the state's agricultural water districts are supposed
to charge the farmers, at least in part, based on that use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">But the state doesn't
actually know how many agricultural water districts are meeting the new
requirements or even inching toward doing so because more than 20 of them have
failed to turn in what's called a water management plan. The plans were due
more than 18 months ago.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
California Farm Water Coalitionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04055772853062724811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326194133117874152.post-46105443886341902262014-07-16T11:21:00.002-07:002014-07-16T11:21:52.460-07:00News articles and links from July 16, 2014
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The 80 percent should stop wasting water</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Steve Mawhinney,
Sacramento Bee</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Re "Hefty overwatering fines
would make it clear California is in a drought" (Editorials, July 14):
Yes, everyone should do their part to reduce overall water consumption and
eliminate wasteful watering habits. Not just during the drought but going
forward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">So when do the folks of
California see the end of gravity irrigation, flooding fields and orchards,
planting water intensive crops and other wasteful practices? So why is it the
users of only 20 percent of the water in the state are pounded and threatened
with fines while the users of the remaining 80 percent continue their wasteful
ways?</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Coalition response... </span></i></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">There are a few persistent myths that need to be dispelled:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">First, California farmers don't
use anywhere near 80% of California's water supply. According to the State's
Department of Water Resources, only 41% of the state's water supply goes to
growing food and fiber. 49% goes to environmental uses, while the rest goes to
our state's cities and industry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Second, farmers are suffering
from cutbacks as well. They were the first to bear the brunt of surface water
shortages and cuts, and the effects of those shortages are expected to be felt
across rural communities for years to come. California's farmers have been
forced to dip into the groundwater savings accounts in order to survive this
year- it's far from clear they will be able to do the same again next year.
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">California must find a way to
come together to meet the challenges of this drought, and to prepare not only
for possible future droughts, but the growing population we know is coming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001tkyN6G2lo5TnalypzQ4MqKHTr9PqqXMVZb8bQsKtiYJCFSP_mhBP55sbGjHqufLEL1nlOcAFhOl2526aGGCykrsSKO5643ZSyZuCbfGJfpfKQj13KpmaFHmy7JDtA_U6Ty5lkRBdB0NjHE23Qzuz_RaCyBMCQY5s1Z9HNz2KkSms4ja3BN9jPT4SouMyBbhyqUXZ--GAGpV6OJmOQ-J0EHcNnJglhMHbI6CBl5Bf9Mrs6C_ttkKEzWLsUGFsOCO3Sr2RR6DLciQjkvFTJL9M0g==&c=HXG9p7gcMmJrbe7ZRGhW77GxAPYcZJGJrafIUhC6RjAsqu8BX_5H8g==&ch=78qBkAatks55GGCvOMjFEpBvdZ0AHJ1Cd6A0z7s44kghpS-K5_NNsw=="><b><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Food
Drive for Families Hit by the Drought</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Staff, KSEE 24</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">One local food bank is holding a
food drive through August 5th.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">[A video report on the ongoing
San Joaquin Valley food drive: "California Water Feeds Our
Communities."]</span></b></div>
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Davis study finds drought will cost California billions</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Michael Doyle, McClatchy
DC</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">California's dogged drought will
cost the state's economy $2.2 billion and an estimated 17,100 jobs, but
consumers will largely be spared higher prices, according to a major study
released Tuesday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The pain is not felt equally,
experts at the University of California, Davis warn, and there could be more
over the horizon as precious groundwater levels fall in what the study calls
the "greatest water loss ever seen in California agriculture."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001tkyN6G2lo5TnalypzQ4MqKHTr9PqqXMVZb8bQsKtiYJCFSP_mhBP55sbGjHqufLEBSFv02pFBhnVqU-HEKDfphXs9ZoBUveDRFnCZhSYCuLuANOxsZds8FbX0iZei6I5onDJvp_rCTQ6zXUOnk15cc2-JqAqSeRbKPA1PI80UsNBtSA7AAhMdUUh57o2lsMUCjvhechOblBjlHPGNLsjscF9w-ZcX6dCjjuaTiwY9BMB3BgNZnZmiDqOVf8aqHgzMx_uji8tPzsU1xcw0u689w==&c=HXG9p7gcMmJrbe7ZRGhW77GxAPYcZJGJrafIUhC6RjAsqu8BX_5H8g==&ch=78qBkAatks55GGCvOMjFEpBvdZ0AHJ1Cd6A0z7s44kghpS-K5_NNsw=="><b><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">California
agriculture industry facing $1 billion in drought losses</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> David Pierson, Los
Angeles Times</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">California's agricultural
industry is facing $1 billion in lost revenue this year from the state's worst
drought in decades and could pay about $500 million for additional groundwater
pumping, a new study said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The UC Davis Center for Watershed
Sciences said in a report released Tuesday that the state's drought has reduced
river water for Central Valley farms by roughly one-third their normal level,
increasing the need for groundwater pumping. </span></div>
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drought expected to cost state $2.2 billion in losses</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">California's drought is expected
to cost the state an estimated $2.2 billion this year, along with a loss of
more than 17,000 jobs, as farmers are forced to fallow some valuable crops, a
report by scientists at the University of California in Davis showed on
Tuesday.</span></div>
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local governments to better manage emergency water reserves, including using
measurement tools to track the amount of groundwater that is used during dry
years and a statewide system for transporting stored water to where it is
needed.</span></div>
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water wasters could be fined $500 a day</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">In one of the most drastic
responses yet to California's drought, state regulators on Tuesday will
consider fines up to $500 a day for people who waste water on landscaping,
fountains, washing vehicles and other outdoor uses.</span></div>
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watering of landscaping to the point that runoff spills onto sidewalks or
streets. Hosing down sidewalks, driveways and other hard surfaces would be
banned along with washing vehicles without a shut-off nozzle.</span></div>
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drought threatens to dry up farm wells</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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pockets of California hardest hit by the drought could begin to see wells run
dry next year.</span></div>
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at the University of California, Davis, released the study Tuesday on the
possible impact if the next two years remain dry in California. The study also
says farmers will leave nearly 430,000 acres unplanted this year, costing
California $2.2 billion.</span></div>
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Get Headlines, but Drought Is a Sneaky, Devastating Game-Changer</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">If droughts were hurricanes,
people might pay more attention to them. Droughts can creep up on us with their
prolonged absence of rain, and their effects often are seen as not much more
than cracked ground in dry lake bottoms. Devastating storms can be sudden and
meteorologically exciting, and they make great television. Droughts are
deliberate-a relatively slow evolution in which it can be difficult to capture
the devastation in any one moment.</span></div>
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threatens state's groundwater reserves, UC Davis study finds</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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California's finite supply of groundwater is highlighted in a UC Davis study
released Tuesday in Washington, D.C.</span></div>
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severe on record -- is responsible for the greatest water loss ever seen in
California agriculture, with river water for Central Valley farms reduced by
roughly one-third.</span></div>
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impact growing daily</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Rick Elkins, Porterville
Recorder</b></span></div>
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water crisis growing daily, a new study released Tuesday estimated the economic
fallout from the three-year drought will top $2 billion to agriculture alone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The report from the University of
California, Davis, shows that California agriculture is weathering its worst
drought in decades due to groundwater reserves, but taking water from the
underground supply is not sustainable.</span></div>
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off the tap, the drought police are coming</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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regulators approved daily fines up to $500 for wasting water, scientists
released a report saying the drought will put a $2.2 billion dent this year in
California's economy. </span></div>
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according to a report by UC Davis, includes 17,100 jobs statewide. Much of the
impact is in agricultural areas stretching from Northern California to San
Bernardino County.<b> </b></span></div>
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Approves Forceful Steps Amid Drought</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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historically low levels and reservoirs quickly dwindling, California officials
on Tuesday approved the most drastic measures yet to reduce water consumption
during the state's increasingly serious drought, including fines of up to $500
per day under some circumstances for watering a garden, washing a car or hosing
down a sidewalk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Reservoirs are running dry, the
Capitol's lawn has turned brown, and farmers have left hundreds of thousands of
acres unplanted. Even so, many Californians aren't taking the drought
seriously. State water regulators are trying to change that by imposing fines
up to $500 a day for wasting water.</span></div>
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Board acted Tuesday amid warnings that conditions could get worse if it doesn't
rain this winter.</span></div>
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clear state in severe drought" (Editorials, July 14): The editorial
board's support of the draconian fine proposed by the elitist State Water Board
comes as no surprise. Instead of going after the big users of the states water
such as agriculture, which use over 85 percent of the state's water, you go
after the small customer who can't defend themselves.</span></div>
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critical water cycle out of balance for state's farmers</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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fountains are not flowing. But in Central California, known as the "Food
Basket of the World," water is also not flowing and farmers are digging
deep in response. This year, California has received its lowest rainfall in
recorded history. On January 17, Gov. Jerry Brown declared a statewide drought
emergency.</span></div>
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springtime fountain hopping was a casualty of the drought. In the Central
Valley, on real farms, livelihoods are threatened, fields are fallow and the
ground is actually sinking.</span></div>
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hasn't raised its water rates in 30 years, and it was obvious Tuesday that
OID's directors resent a state law requiring them to charge farmers more to
irrigate. "All of this is getting forced on us," board Chairman Steve
Webb repeatedly stated.</span></div>
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irrigation district has complied with the Water Conservation Act of 2009, which
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bill amendment could mean more money for the Salton Sea</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Antoine Abou-Diwan,
Imperial Valley Press</b></span></div>
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spending bill could mean an additional $1 million for Salton Sea environmental
efforts.</span></div>
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Raul Ruiz (D-Palm Desert), are for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which is
involved in a number of public health projects including the Red Hill Bay
project.</span></div>
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Letters from Labor Groups Express Support for Bay Delta Conservation Plan </span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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California's local government, business, and agricultural organizations have
joined the ongoing discussion about the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP).
Several leading labor organizations - including the Southwest Regional Council
of Carpenters, the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades
Council, the Southern California District Council of Laborers and the International
Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 12 - have also weighed in and sent
letters to their elected officials expressing support for the project. <b>
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Brown Announces Appointments to Water Commission</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Staff, ACWA</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Gov. Jerry Brown on July 14
announced several reappointments to the California Water Commission as well as
the new appointment of Armando Quintero, president of the Marin Municipal Water
District Board of Directors.</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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Water limits should apply to all users</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"></span></div>
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Resources Control Board will decide next week whether to impose mandatory
limits on urban water use and slap violators with fines of up to $500 a day.
This begs two questions:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">2) Why aren't agricultural water
users, who gulp 80 percent of California's usable supply, getting the same
attention?</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Coalition response...</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">According to the State's Department of Water Resources, only 41% of the
state's water supply goes to growing food and fiber. 49% goes to environmental
uses, while the rest goes to our state's cities and industry. While the food
and fiber we enjoy is definitely thirsty this year - it certainly doesn't gulp
80% of the water in the state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Not only are farmers already
implementing conservation measures, they were the first to bear the brunt of
surface water shortages. The consequences of these shortages cascade through
the rural communities that have grown up to work some of the rarest, most
valuable soils in the world, and into the cities that enjoy their produce. While
the hardships of the shortages will be felt most severely in the rural
communities as surging unemployment, strained civic services, and business
downturns - our urban centers will also be reminded at the checkout stand when
buying locally grown produce.</span></div>
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were encouraged to plant a lot of high value permanent crops prior to the
destabilization of surface water supplies. Farmers remember well the criticisms
leveled against them only a few short decades ago for raising annual crops on
the same land they are now being criticized for growing trees and vines on...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">As a solution for California's
complex water challenges, conserving water to get more from every drop stands
out for its great potential and the misconceptions around it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">A recent op-ed column, "<a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001F81kGIFeO2ZRCgAlBU5_-vlb3cD50a9CcXLxjK5yippta76Kx4s8lMCRTFsbLqAwXat2YskhMXHb6CwYXFtOLKTHkncuVb7-A7JehoLF1sA1Tvp7jGY2l7bQ3LWv8b8T1FvsEc2q82Sge8BZGZSHagosv7qH-4YhiYzqKfx5Ujr7sEMuhM8LXMJrvgHkUPbjnekNvebtLp1juIzkJVFb9iEKTWyYVY2Dfo4N812z9_-LPmMZstM73CAwl6FehfH7&c=irkweQ_J9ViWVxsyULKaO_5sRRCwOOmLZVqUCvDriEzOrWd8GCJZQQ==&ch=jIMcxbsjIheh98H-tx7G18cQQH2yQIoUjfXv_jg-0lOKDb6Wjs-_tA=="><span style="color: blue;">Putting two myths about the state's drought to rest</span></a>"
(Viewpoints, July 6), repeated three misstatements about conservation that are
often used to delay implementing strategies for more efficient water use. Until
these misunderstandings are corrected, common-sense improvements will continue
to be underfunded and inadequately pursued. The failure to use proven and
cost-effective efficiency programs can be seen in the limited attention to
conservation in the state water bond proposals and only modest efforts of some
water agencies.</span></div>
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record 2.1 billion pounds of almonds this year, the USDA estimates-about three
times as much as they did in 2000. That's great news for the world's growing
horde of almond eaters, because the state's groves supply 80 percent of the
global harvest. </span></div>
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San Joaquin River's hard-won restoration is under threat</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Tim Palmer, Sacramento
Bee</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Since 2009, the San Joaquin River
has been celebrated as a path-breaking example of restoration. But this year,
Central California's largest river has the dubious distinction of being on the
conservation group American Rivers' "most endangered" list because
it's so overtapped.</span></div>
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drought could worsen the situation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Staff, Modesto Bee</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The board of the Turlock
Irrigation District will talk Tuesday evening about supplying some of its
Tuolumne River water to a treatment plant proposed for three cities.</span></div>
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"certain proposed terms and conditions" that would be attached to any
agreement to provide the water to Turlock, Ceres and south Modesto, according
to the agenda. The project, which has been discussed off and on since the
1980s, could reduce their reliance on wells.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Mark Grossi, Fresno Bee</b></span></div>
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Friday rejected a motion for a preliminary injunction against irrigation water
transfers from Northern California to the San Joaquin Valley.</span></div>
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California environmental advocacy group in June asked the court to stop water
transfers, saying federal leaders are jeopardizing the protected delta smelt.
The plaintiffs are AquAlliance and the California Sportfishing Protection
Alliance, both nonprofit groups.</span></div>
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water deals struck in drought-stricken Central Valley ag country</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> M. Grossi, R. Rodriguez,
Fresno Bee </b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">In drought-scarred farm country,
coffee shop talk turns obsessively to water and its cost - which several months
ago hit a shocking $1,000 per acre-foot and then climbed to more than $2,000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">But it's far too simple to say
drought-buster deals in the San Joaquin Valley are all about making a pile of
money. A sale in the last week featured a compassionate offer of San Joaquin
River water at only $250 per acre-foot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">California is in the third year
of its worst drought in decades. But you wouldn't know it by looking at how
much water the state's residents and businesses are using. According to a
recent state survey, Californians cut the amount of water they used in the
first five months of the year by just 5 percent, far short of the 20 percent
reduction Gov. Jerry Brown called for in January. In some parts of the state,
like the San Diego area, water use has actually increased from 2013.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Coalition response...</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"> A persistent myth repeated in this opinion is that 80% of California's
water is used to grow food and fiber. This is wrong. California's Department of
Water Resources reports that water use is quite different from this claim. The State
reports that, in fact only about 41% of water is used to grow food and fiber,
approximately 10% goes to drive commerce and be used in homes, while 49% goes
to the environment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Despite the repeated claims of
the environmental interest groups Pacific Institute and NRDC, who have sought
for years to sell the public a false message of vast agricultural water waste,
their estimates of water that can be conserved were soundly dismissed by
leading university researchers in 2009 and 2011 as grossly overstated.</span></div>
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precision irrigation methods gives better control over when water is applied,
research shows that the volume of water used often increases with the use of
technologies such as drip. This increased use translates to greater productivity
per plant, better plant health, and higher quality food for us to enjoy. Flood
irrigation, often maligned, often proves a very efficient method of irrigating,
particularly when coupled with laser leveling of fields, and usually require
less energy to operate than drip systems.</span></div>
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California's Low On Water? Time to Fine the Water Resources Board Not Its
Citizens</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Thomas Del Beccaro,
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">California is in the midst of one
of its many droughts. To combat the current drought, the otherwise
do-nothings of the California Water Resources Board are proposing to fine
citizens they call "water hogs" $500 per day. Instead of fining
helpless consumers, California's government should do its job for once and
seriously increase water supplies.</span></div>
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is the most populated state in the Union, with more than 38 million
people. Its population was just under 20 million in 1970, when the bulk
of its current water storage and delivery systems were already built. In
other words, the California governments have done very little to significantly
increase water supplies in over 40 years, even though its population has
doubled during that period of time.</span></div>
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particularly during a drought - some group issues a report that says if only
California agriculture would conserve a little more, all of the state's water
woes would be solved.</span></div>
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of the Sacramento-based California Farm Water Coalition, takes exception to
that. "Conservation and recycling are important, but we can't conserve our
way out of the existing situation with the current demands," he said.</span></div>
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Water limits should apply to all users</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The California State Water
Resources Control Board will decide next week whether to impose mandatory
limits on urban water use and slap violators with fines of up to $500 a day.
This begs two questions:</span></div>
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users, who gulp 80 percent of California's usable supply, getting the same
attention?</span></div>
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Water rules and fines will help, but attitudes must change</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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Control Board affirms all the staff recommendations for emergency urban water
cutbacks outlined Wednesday - restrictions and fines on excessive landscape
watering, running hoses and rinsing off sidewalks. Such rules are reasonable
and doable.</span></div>
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fights costly wastewater mandate</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Alex Breitler, Stockton
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wastewater permit that the city says could cost its ratepayers anywhere from
$195 million to $252 million and increase rates by perhaps 80 percent.</span></div>
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week with the State Water Resources Control Board. A lower board approved the
permit last month, pushing aside the city's argument that in this case, the
benefits of stricter pollution standards did not justify the cost.</span></div>
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down the most endangered river in America</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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miles, I finished my kayaking (and walking) journey down the "most
endangered" river in America: California's San Joaquin. This page collects
the tweets from my adventure. The journey started way up in the Sierra Nevada
Mountains and ended beneath the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on July 4.</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
California Farm Water Coalitionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04055772853062724811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326194133117874152.post-71783561445025470442014-07-10T11:52:00.002-07:002014-07-10T11:52:31.400-07:00News articles and links from July 10, 2014
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Water is free; it's pipes that cost</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Steve Knell, Modesto Bee</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The story "OID's fees for
services adjusted" (Page B1, July 3) contained a number of inflammatory
statements that need to be addressed, lest The Bee create more ill-informed
readers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">It may come as a surprise, but
all water in California is "free." You just need to pay for the
infrastructure, and the operations and maintenance of the hardware used to get
water to the farm gate. That cost is not cheap. In the Oakdale Irrigation
District, it is $60 per acre-foot of delivered water.</span></div>
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costs harder to swallow with U.S. pig virus, drought</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Theopolis Waters,
Reuters</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The cost to produce a BLT,
America's favorite summer sandwich, hit a record high of $1.65 in May and will
continue to take a bigger bite out of wallets in the coming months, given a pig
virus that has ramped up bacon prices and drought-stricken salad crops in
California.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">California is in the third year
of its worst drought in decades. But you wouldn't know it by looking at how
much water the state's residents and businesses are using. According to a
recent state survey, Californians cut the amount of water they used in the
first five months of the year by just 5 percent, far short of the 20 percent
reduction Gov. Jerry Brown called for in January. In some parts of the state,
like the San Diego area, water use has actually increased from 2013.</span></div>
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Challenging myth and mirage in California's drought</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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worsen, two persistent water myths are complicating the search for solutions.
One is that environmental regulation is causing California's water scarcity.
The other is that conservation alone can bring us into balance. Each myth has
different advocates. But both hinder the development of effective policies to
manage one of the state's most important natural resources.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Jessica Calefati, San
Jose Mercury News</b></span></div>
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this year when Gov. Jerry Brown begged them to conserve water. So now, with no
end to the extreme dry weather in sight, state officials are poised to slap
water wasters with unprecedented fines of up to $500 a day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">A proposal that federal officials
said was intended to simplify federal water laws has instead been interpreted
to do the opposite - and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is scrambling
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California Farm Water Coalitionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04055772853062724811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326194133117874152.post-76646057366219333962014-07-08T16:03:00.000-07:002014-07-08T16:03:36.126-07:00News articles and links from July 8, 2014
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Irrigation District to unveil water storage proposal</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Antoine Abou-Diwan,
Imperial Valley Press</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The public will get its first
look at Imperial Irrigation District's water storage proposal at today's
Imperial Irrigation District Board of Directors meeting. The program, a joint
proposal with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, would
have the IID store some of its water at Lake Mead for three years, and in doing
so bolster its elevation.</span></div>
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Flooding from Levee Breaches in the Central Valley</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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through the Central Valley near homes, throughout the city, and in the
countryside. The Friant-Kern Canal is one of the major systems. About 152 miles
stretch from north of Fresno down to Bakersfield.</span></div>
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the Friant-Kern Canal that was to break and was adjacent to some cities, it
could create havoc," says Mario Santoyo with the Friant Water Authority.
Santoyo says there hasn't been any breaches of that waterway.</span></div>
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expected to last seven days on the Alta Irrigation District's main canal, which
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California Oil Field Yields Another Prized Commodity</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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field unfolds into the horizon, thousands of bobbing pumpjacks seemingly
occupying every corner of a desert landscape here in California's Central
Valley. A contributor to the state's original oil boom, it is still going
strong as the nation's fifth-largest oil field, yielding 70,000 barrels a day.</span></div>
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produces 10 times more of something that, at least during California's
continuing drought, has become more valuable to many locals and has experienced
the kind of price spike more familiar to oil: water. The field's owner,
Chevron, sells millions of gallons every day to a local water district that
distributes it to farmers growing almonds, pistachios, citrus fruits and other
crops.</span></div>
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End secrecy in California's groundwater logs</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Staff, Sacramento Bee</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">California is the only state in
the western United States that does not regulate groundwater at the state
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Tom Knudson pointed out in a Sunday story, "As drought persists,
frustration mounts over secrecy of California's well drilling logs," the
state also is unique in the West with a wrongheaded, outdated 1951 law that
makes well logs and drillers reports confidential information and not available
to the public.</span></div>
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Almond grower weary of farmers being called water-wasters</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Dave Phippen, Modesto
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Imagine my surprise to wake up to
yet another Sunday morning story in The Modesto Bee ("Rush to drill is
uneven" Page A1, June 29) to learn how those pesky nut farmers have caused
even more rural Stanislaus residents to experience the unpleasant experience of
a dry well.</span></div>
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entire life, I'm no stranger to that helpless feeling when the tap yields no
water. In the drought of '77 our family experienced both dry domestic and
irrigation wells. We were able to secure loans to drill new wells for both
purposes. We realized that with the benefit of living in the country comes the
responsibility of providing and maintaining our own water supply. I've fixed,
cleaned, modified and replaced many domestic wells for houses on my ranches
over my lifetime - it's a fact of life when you live in the country.</span></div>
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Technology, Water Recycling and Other Advances Should Reduce Our Farms' Thirst</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Clare Hassler-Lewis,
Wall Street Journal</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">What will the future of
agriculture and food production look like? Most of us are aware of some
sobering statistics: With the planet's population expected to approach 10
billion by 2050, and incomes rising, demand for food is likely to double.
Demand for water, meanwhile, is projected to grow roughly 55%, according to the
2014 U.N. World Water Development Report, while more than 40% of the world's
population will be living in areas of severe water stress. Those are daunting
challenges, to be sure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">But from where I'm sitting, I
also see a steady stream of new farming technologies, practices and ideas that
are increasing our ability to use limited resources efficiently-particularly
water. And that promises a future agriculture that can feed the world,
sustainably, for generations to come.</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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may step up enforcement of water restrictions amid drought</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Sharon Bernstein,
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">California may ratchet up
enforcement of drought-related pumping restrictions in slow-moving creeks and
lakes under new rules being considered on Tuesday, prompting worry among
farmers as the state enters the dry summer season.</span></div>
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the State Water Resources Control Board comes during worsening drought
conditions and political gridlock that has stalled progress on efforts to raise
money to build new reservoirs and other methods for storing water in the
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Bay Farmers, Businesses Get Reprieve from Water Cut Off</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The Santa Clara Valley Water
District has extended its deadline to cut off water to some South Bay farmers
and commercial businesses.</span></div>
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district's deadline for shutting down service to farmers and other surface
water users in Santa Clara County. Water officials said there will be no more
extensions because drinking water is now at stake.</span></div>
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struggles to manage water rights in drought</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"></span></div>
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thousands of California water users to stop diverting from rivers and streams
amid the worst drought in a generation, state officials say only 31 percent
have bothered to respond by sending back the required forms. Now, their efforts
to force the rest to comply are prompting threats of lawsuits and economic chaos.</span></div>
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water board puts off decision on conflicting river diversion rights</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> J.N. Sbranti, Modesto
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emotional testimony Tuesday by Stanislaus County farmers and other California
water users, the State Water Resources Control Board delayed deciding what to
do regarding conflicting water rights.</span></div>
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taking steps toward regulating river diversions by those who have century-old
water rights - including the Modesto, Turlock, Oakdale, Patterson, South San
Joaquin and Merced irrigation districts.</span></div>
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California, water fetching record prices</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Garance Burke,
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desperately dry Central Valley, those with water to spare are cashing in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">As a third parched summer forces
farmers to fallow fields and lay off workers, two water districts and a pair of
landowners in the heart of the state's farmland are making millions of dollars
by auctioning off their private caches<b>.</b></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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San Diego legislators in pivotal role in water bond fight</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Staff, San Diego Union
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">State lawmakers are deep into
what hopefully are final negotiations for a major bond issue asking voters to
provide billions for critical water projects throughout this drought-plagued
state. As always in water matters, San Diego County has much at stake. The
region's legislative delegation must continue to present a united front and to
play an aggressive role to assure the region is not shortchanged.</span></div>
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to help drought stricken farmers involves reversing the flow of water in
California Aqueduct</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Staff, KERO 23</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Kern County water officials are
working on an ambitious plan to move water uphill. The plan will use the
California Aqueduct to move water 47 miles north to farms that need it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">In an effort to keep their crops
alive in this record-breaking drought, a group of growers will pay up to $9
million to have water flow up the California Aqueduct.</span></div>
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can continue to pump water from the Delta this summer</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Staff, Stockton Record</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Stockton can continue to pump
water from the Delta this summer, ensuring that its new $220-million
drinking-water plant -- funded by ratepayers -- won't be standing idle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The city was one of thousands of
junior water-right holders in the Central Valley ordered to stop diverting
water in recent weeks because of the drought. That water needed to remain in
the rivers for those with older, more senior rights, the State Water Resources
Control Board said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Rob Parsons, Merced Sun
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Millions of dollars and thousands
of gallons of irrigation water are potentially at stake in a civil trial that
opened Monday involving several prominent Merced County farmers and the Merced
Irrigation District.</span></div>
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Gallo, owner of the Gallo Cattle Co., seeks at least several million dollars in
damages and access to MID water for his Livingston-based farm, Bear Creek
Ranch. The specific amount of damages sought by Gallo could not be confirmed
Monday. The complex trial is scheduled to end by July 25.</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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Drought focuses need to negotiate improved water bond</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Staff, Sacramento Bee</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Californians must seize the
opportunity provided by the worst drought in 30 years to improve the system for
delivering water to the state's 38 million residents. With rainfall and snowpack
half of normal, lawns are going brown, farmers are getting a fraction of their
allocations and food prices are rising.</span></div>
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percent, while people in the foothills town of Outingdale are rationed to 68
gallons of water per person per day. That's a third of what the average
Californian uses. It also could be a harbinger, especially if forecasts prove
true that this will be a hotter-than-normal summer.</span></div>
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Conservation Plan</span></div>
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water project heads to state high court</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Staff, Associated Press</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The California Supreme Court is
set to decide if the state must buy thousands of acres of private property to
perform preliminary tests for two massive water tunnels in the Sacramento-San
Joaquin Delta.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The dispute stems from Gov. Jerry
Brown's proposal, which would send river water around the delta system to farms
and communities in Central and Southern California.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Denny Walsh, Sacramento
Bee</b></span></div>
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agreed to decide an epic battle over whether the state must condemn and acquire
parcels on tens of thousands of acres of private property to conduct
preliminary testing for Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to construct two large
water-conveyance tunnels in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Staff, New York Times</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">With water increasingly scarce in
the drought-ravaged American West, many states could face drastic rationing
without rain. Even with more sustainable practices, the future of water in the
West is not secure. Population growth, conflicting demands for resources, and the
unpredictable nature of a changing climate will all exacerbate the crisis of an
already parched landscape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">What are the best ways to share
the water? And how can we ensure it lasts for the foreseeable future?</span></div>
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will play larger role in who gets water</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Dennis Taylor, Salinas
Californian</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">If the Salinas Valley moves into
a fourth year of drought, issues surrounding water are likely to get very, very
complicated, an attorney explained to growers and students Thursday at an
agricultural technology "clinic" in Greenfield.</span></div>
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growers in the valley, limited water supplies will need to be shared with
cities and, based on a new court ruling, the environment, said Aaron Johnson,
an attorney with the law firm of L+G LLP in Salinas.</span></div>
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Has Drillers Running After Shrinking California Water Supply</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Steve Arthur practically lives
out of his truck these days. He runs one of Fresno's busiest well-drilling
companies, and hustles up and down the highway to check on drilling rigs that
run 24 hours a day. "It's officially getting crazy," Arthur says.
"We go and we go but it just seems like we can't go fast enough."</span></div>
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for oil and gas - it's for water. And during this severe drought, farmers and
ranchers are relying heavily on pumping groundwater. Counties in the farm-rich
Central Valley are issuing record numbers of permits for new wells. But the
drilling frenzy could threaten the state's shrinking underground aquifers.</span></div>
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go dry as farmers get permits to drill hundreds of new wells</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> J.N. Sbranti, Modesto
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been granted permission to drill hundreds of new agricultural wells this year,
while an increasing number of domestic water wells go dry, a review of permit
records shows.</span></div>
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well drilling permits were issued in the first six months of 2014. That's
nearly as many as were issued during all of 2013, which itself was a banner
year for drilling.</span></div>
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farmland decreasing in state</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Staff, Porterville
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Irrigated farmland decreased in
California by about 263 square miles from 2008-2010, according to the latest
land-use change data from the Department of Conservation (DOC). Although more
than 102,000 acres of the highest-quality agricultural soil, known as prime
farmland, were included in that decrease, the California Farmland Conversion
Report also noted that the amount of urbanization in the state was a record
low.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">"Urban land increased by
44,504 acres. This was the lowest urbanization rate recorded since our first
such report and likely reflected the impact of the recent economic
recession," DOC Director Mark Nechodom said. "More than urbanization,
long-term land idling was the biggest factor in the decrease of irrigated
farmland."</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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Senate deadlocks on $10.5-billion water bond</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Patrick McGreevy, Los
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The state Senate deadlocked
Monday on a $10.5-billion water bond measure proposed for the November ballot
when Republicans opposed it for not providing enough for water storage and to
protect water rights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Supporters of SB 848 could not
muster the two-thirds vote needed to put the measure on the November ballot as
a replacement for an $11.1-billion water bond that senators believe has too
much pork to win voter approval. The vote on the measure was 22-9, with some
members abstaining.</span></div>
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California politicians trying to draft a new water bond</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Dan Walters, Sacramento
Bee</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">With the state budget behind
them, the Capitol's politicians are turning to water, always California's most
divisive political issue - but particularly so during a very severe drought, as
a state Senate debate and vote demonstrated Monday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">They are trying - some harder
than others - to write a new water bond to replace an $11.1 billion proposal
placed on the ballot in 2009 but already postponed twice and widely believed to
face voter rejection.</span></div>
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tunnels, conservancy in spotlight as Senate bond proposal falters</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Jeremy White, Sacramento
Bee</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">With the governor's controversial
Delta tunnel project a key part of the debate, lawmakers on Monday failed to
advance a leading Senate proposal to put a revised water bond on the November
ballot.</span></div>
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drought plan stalls in state Senate as deadline looms</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Sharon Bernstein &
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">A long-awaited plan to shore up
California's drought-parched water supply stalled in the legislature on Monday,
amid Republican complaints that the proposal does not do enough to send water
to farms and cities in the state's breadbasket.</span></div>
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New dams needed</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> William Palazzini,
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">If California is in such an
extreme drought and farmers are not receiving any irrigation water, why is the
Bureau of Reclamation emptying Folsom lake at such a rapid rate? Where is the
water going other than into the ocean?</span></div>
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Supplying people is the answer</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Philip Karlstad,
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Recently an article in The Bee
reported that water releases from Folsom Dam would be increased to reduce the
water release temperature and prevent salt water intrusion in the Delta. The
Bureau of Reclamations is wrong.</span></div>
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Help relieve water storage and distribution stress</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Richard Mazzucchi, Red
Bluff Daily News</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">As one of the most productive
agricultural regions in the world, California produces more than 400 different
farm products and is the nation's largest agricultural producer. In 2012,
California farm output was valued at a record $45 billion, or about one-tenth
of the total for the entire nation, and the state is also the nation's largest
agricultural exporter, with exports reaching a record $18.2 billion in 2012.</span></div>
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peacefully atop a Sierra peak, it begins a turbulent journey to help quench the
thirst of a drought-stricken state.</span></div>
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provides a third of California's water supply. But it is by far the least
reliable portion - and now, after three years of historically low snowfall,
tensions are soaring over how we share the shrinking bounty of this great frozen
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Meagan Clark,
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">A prolonged drought in California
that spread to nearly 33 percent of the state this week is expected to dry up
thousands of jobs in the state's agricultural sector and could push U.S. food
prices higher this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The state's
"exceptional" drought is the worst recorded in the 14 years that the
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been collecting such data. The Golden
State, the world's eighth-largest economy, produces nearly half of the nation's
fruits and vegetables - 95 percent of the country's broccoli, 81 percent of its
carrots, and 99 percent of its artichokes, almonds and walnuts - along with
cattle and dairy products.</span></div>
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Water Prices Soar, Some Profit From California's Drought</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Lauren Sommer,
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California are facing a tough summer ahead, but for those who do have water, it
can be a windfall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Water is hitting record prices on
the open market, prompting some farmers to pump groundwater and sell it - what
some call "groundwater mining." With groundwater already at
record-low levels in parts of the state, concerns are rising that these water
sales, known as water transfers, may put pressure on California's overtaxed
aquifers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Chris Roberts, KNTV</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">It's a great time to be a seller
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">As California's drought enters
its third summer, some Central Valley farmers and ranchers lucky enough to have
groundwater to sell are raking in epic profits, according to KQED. Some 60 billion
gallons of groundwater could be sold via the practice that's called
"groundwater mining," the news source reported.</span></div>
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fines could be imposed on those who don't stop diverting river water</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> J.N. Sbranti, Modesto
Bee</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Few of the 7,910 landowners who
were ordered last month to stop diverting water from California's rivers have
complied. So the state is proposing to "put some teeth" into its
emergency drought regulations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The State Water Resources Control
Board next week will consider imposing hefty fines on farmers and other water
users to "ensure timely compliance" with curtailment orders.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
California Farm Water Coalitionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04055772853062724811noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8326194133117874152.post-85158132477424992892014-06-23T13:15:00.002-07:002014-06-23T13:15:50.797-07:00News articles and links from June 23, 2014
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Critics should at least get the facts straight about farm production</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Donald Anthrop, Contra
Costa Times</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Several recent columnists and
writers for this paper have argued that cotton and alfalfa are
"water-intensive" crops and should not be grown in California.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Let me first dispel the myth about
cotton being such a water-intensive crop. The consumptive water use by a crop
basically depends upon four factors: the percentage of the field covered by
green foliage; the length of the growing season; the temperature during the
growing season; and the humidity during the growing season.</span></div>
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What does drought-stricken California need? A water bond.</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Los Angeles has begun a historic
drive to decrease its dependence on imported water. The Sacramento-San Joaquin
River Delta, the state's precarious water switching station and the key to the
survival not only of salmon and other threatened species but of the state's
agriculture industry, is in crisis. California is in the midst of a continuing
drought. It is hard to fathom a higher priority than safeguarding the state's
precious water resources, or a more crucial time to do it. That means an
investment in the form of a carefully crafted water bond.</span></div>
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hearing in the California legislature next week...it's all about water or lack
of. NBC4's Conan Nolan talks with senate leader Darrell Steinberg about why the
senator no longer supports the the water bond that is on the November ballot..a
ballot measure that was innitiated by then-Governor Arnold Scwarzenegger. A lot
has changed in five years, says the Steinberg. He tells us why.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Michael Gardner, San Diego
Union-Tribune</b></span></div>
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Gov. Jerry Brown and state lawmakers have been unable to strike a compromise on
a new water bond that will have far-reaching implications for the San Diego
region in the decades to come.</span></div>
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proposals also reflects the sharp disagreements between the region's primary
players seeking to influence how much money is spent where.</span></div>
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a below-normal mountain snowpack to feed its streams and reservoirs, the
portion of the parched state experiencing exceptionally severe drought
conditions is growing, experts said.</span></div>
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in the third year of a crippling drought that has forced ranchers to sell
cattle for lack of grazing land, and farmers to let an estimated 400,000 acres
normally devoted to crops go fallow. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said
Thursday that while all of the state remains in a severe drought, the portion
of the state in what is considered an "exceptional drought" increased
in the past week from about 25 percent to about 33 percent.</span></div>
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Bay farmers may get less water this summer</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"></span></div>
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summer and it's expected to be long hot dry one.</span></div>
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of a devastating drought and farmers near Brentwood are getting some pretty bad
news -- they might be getting far less water than they had counted on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">As California strains under a
third straight year of drought, Gov. Jerry Brown and many legislators have
shown strong interest in modernizing management of groundwater - the state's
most important drought reserves. At the same time, a group of nearly 40 leading
water professionals and scholars has been exploring ways California can move
forward with more effective groundwater management. </span></div>
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war bubbling up between California and Arizona</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Michael Hiltzik, Los
Angeles Times</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Once upon a time, California and
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">The year was 1934, and Arizona
was convinced that the construction of Parker Dam on the lower Colorado River
was merely a plot to enable California to steal its water rights. Its governor,
Benjamin Moeur, dispatched a squad of National Guardsmen up the river to secure
the eastern bank from the decks of the ferryboat Julia B. - derisively dubbed
"Arizona's navy" by a Times war correspondent assigned to cover the
skirmish. After the federal government imposed a truce, the guardsmen returned
home as "conquering heroes."</span></div>
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water tunnel job claims generating controversy</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">A bold, $25-billion plan to ship
more water to Southern California could create tens of thousands of new jobs a
year for decades, a Brown administration study says. And even though the plan
is at least two years from possible final approval, it is generating plenty of
controversy..</span></div>
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to be endorsed by federal and state wildlife agencies, calls for two enormous
tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta that would deliver water
to Central Valley farmers, Los Angeles and other cities.</span></div>
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'Chinatown' in real life: In L.A., you have to follow the water</span></b></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">From:<b> Gary Polakovic, Los
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">It's been 40 years since the June
20, 1974, opening of "Chinatown," the fictionalized drama about
power, corruption and what is arguably L.A.'s most crucial resource: water. The
iconic film was Hollywood's make-believe version of an undying reality: In
L.A., you have to follow the water..</span></div>
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something of a fantasy since the first wagon trains. It's a drink mixed from
equal parts Manifest Destiny, hubris and engineering derring-do. Aspiration
would find a way to trump aridity; water would inevitably flow to our will, not
nature's. Now the make-believe at the heart of Western water is withering, as
the reality of drought and global warming take hold.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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