Opinion
from IndyBay - Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010
By Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta
Last week the Delta Stewardship council (DSC) adopted an interim plan for the Delta as required by last year’s Comprehensive Water Package.
Coalition viewpoint…The comments by this author are not surprising. She is focused only on her world within the Delta and does not realize that water in California is a statewide issue. Her comments do not serve to resolve California’s water problems. Instead of working with others to reach a statewide solution, she remains short-sighted.
Suits fight pumping from Kern Water Bank
from Sacramento Bee – Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010
'Chinatown II'? Wells go dry; water bank faces suits
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from Fresno Bee – Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010
A story worthy of Hollywood will soon unfold in California courtrooms -- allegations of government corruption and corporate greed to rival the infamous Los Angeles water grab that inspired the film "Chinatown."
Coalition viewpoint… Criticism over the acquisition and operation of the Kern Water Bank defies logic and exposes the naysayers as little more than obstructionists with their own agendas.
1. The State transferred the water bank in exchange for the obligation to deliver 45,000 acre-feet of water. Absent that transfer, the State would still have that liability on its books.
2. Water transferred during surplus water years to fill the bank went into an environmentally friendly water storage system, which is what the environmentalists clamor for instead of building more dams. Capturing water and storing it during wet years for use at a later date is the way California’s water supply system works. That’s why we store water.
3. The State bought back the water in drought years when it was needed because the Kern Water Bank had it available to sell. Without the Bank that water would have gone to the ocean and been unavailable at any cost.
4. Calling the water bank’s actions “an attack on Delta water supplies” ignores the fact that Delta water users have a right to all of the water they can beneficially use. Excess water is available to store for use by 25 million Californians who depend on water flowing through the Delta for all or part of their water supply. That’s the need the Kern Water Bank fills.
Longtime valley leader Corky Larson looks back
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from Desert Sun – Monday, Sept. 6, 2010
Governor will pass the buck on water
Column
from Fresno Bee – Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010
State board wants Sacramento to reduce sewage in river
Story
from Sacramento Bee
Forests, restrooms and water rights…
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from The Times-Standard – Monday, Sept. 6, 2007
Will the state build or falter on the Legislature’s historic compromise?
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from Comstocks Magazine – September 2010
Machado named director of Delta commission
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from Stockton Record – Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010
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