Forecasters: California should see drier winter
Story
from Contra Costa Times – Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010
California water, here it comes?
Editorial
from Marysville Appeal-Democrat – Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010
Kaweah Water District Had To Juggle Dam Flood Releases During Storm
Blog
from SIERRA2THESEA – Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010
An Open Letter to the Governor-Elect
Blog
from SF Chronicle – Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010
Blog
from Restore the Delta – Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010
Story
from North County Times – Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010
Coalition viewpoint...Conservation is an important part of California’s water future and a process in which everyone can participate, not just residents of San Diego County. However, it is important to realize that conservation is only one piece of the puzzle that will lead to a reliable water supply for the future. New storage facilities are needed to make additional water supplies available when needed. An improved conveyance system must also become a reality to deliver that water. Continued water use efficiency is also important as part of the package that will provide a reliable water supply for the next generation.
Lake Oroville up, but still below average
Story
from Chico Enterprise Record - Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010
Story
From Marysville Appeal-Democrat - Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010
Is La Nina for real?: Water managers cautiously optimistic winter will be wetter than expected
Story
From Santa Cruz Sentinel - Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010
California storms fill reservoirs, snowpack
Story
from Capital Press – Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010
Judge’s ruling criticizes science behind water cuts
Story
from Ag Alert – Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010
Senator Feinstein Learns That, in the Delta, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Blog
From NRDC - Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010
by Barry Nelson
Mexico, US agree on Colorado River allotments
Story
from Modesto Bee - Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010
Editorial: Conaway Ranch deal sounds scary, but dig deeper
from Sacramento Bee - Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010
Why Conway Ranch is vital part of Yolo Bypass
Story
from Sacramento Bee- Tuesday Dec. 21, 2010
Letter
from Sacramento Bee – Monday, Dec. 20, 2010
Environmental groups seek increased delta smelt water restrictions throughout California
Blog
from PLF Liberty Blog – Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010
Will the Great Bore save California?
Editorial
from Manteca Bulletin – Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010
Thoughts on the latest Delta smelt ruling
Blog
from Legal Planet – Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010
Habitat land rush worries Yolo rice farmers, officials
Story
from Sacramento Bee – Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010
To save Delta, sewage must be upgraded
Viewpoint
from Sacramento Bee – Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010
Salmon hearing in Fresno wraps up
Story
from Fresno Bee – Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010
Blog
from Aquafornia – Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010
Delta water debate should be solely for state to decide
Letter
from Bakersfield Californian – Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010
Imported water deliveries hit 20-year high
Story
from Desert Sun – Friday, Dec. 17 2010
Calif water projections raised as storms roll in
Story
from Sacramento Bee – Friday, Dec. 17, 2010
Public debate is healthy and that includes listening to diverse opinions on how we all use our resources. However, the unrestrained arena of Internet blogs and the public comment sections at the end of online news stories provides anonymous writers the ability to say just about anything.
At CFWC we reviewed hundreds of on-line comments to come up with the Top Ten examples of individuals exercising their First Amendment rights. While we strongly disagree with their content, we provide them to you as a year-end reminder of the reason your support and involvement in farm water issues is important.
(If you wish to read more of the public comments, click the links provided following 'Read more'.)
10.
From SF Chronicle
Testing water for salmon in the San Joaquin River
Feb. 7, 2010
Kreed: Why stop at restoring the San Joaquin River? Let's recover the rest of the southern Central Valley's formerly rich and abundant ecosystem. You can wake me up when Tulare Lake has been restored to its mid-nineteenth century size, between 600 and 700 square miles.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/07/BATF1BS147.DTL&feed=rss.news <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/07/BATF1BS147.DTL&feed=rss.news>
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9.
From SF Chronicle
Judge rejects plea to lift smelt limits
Feb. 10, 2010
Purpleimpernel: Farmers need to learn to work without the huge flow of free water they are used to. For a start, tropical crops like rice and cotton don't belong here. They should give up on flood irrigation, arial spay irrigation, daytime watering, etc.
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8.
From City Brights/SF Chronicle
Saving the salmon fishing industry
By Zeke Grader
April 14, 2010
cptjohnsmith: mikewade: You should be ashamed of yourself. You and others like you are responsible for the serious and permanent damage that is being inflicted on our great state by the large corporate agribusinesses...Put simply, you and those like are criminally responsible for vandalizing the state of California.
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7.
From City Brights/SF Chronicle
Saving the salmon fishing industry
By Zeke Grader
April 14, 2010
CTheGee: The salmon of the San Joaquin were sacrificed for over fifty years by diverting the river to farms. ... Eradication of salmon, a sustainable "crop" for continued growth of unsustainable agriculture on toxic soils is not really worth an argument.
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6.
From SF Chronicle
Judge may deal jolt to delta water plan
May 18, 2010
huero: Those killer whales in Fresno are fierce.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/18/MNFT1DGOGD.DTL#ixzz17ZEGQwKD
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5.
From SF Gate
This time, will we end the water war?
June 12, 2010
codeofthewest: read marc reisner's "Cadillack Desert." an absolutely tremendous work, engaging, informative, apolitical; imperative reading, should be a mandatory Calif history high school text. (that's an utter fantasy, of course - for one thing, i think that's a BOOK!)
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/12/INV31DRTR9.DTL#ixzz17TbTn9MA
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Speier shouldn't blame farmers for salmon decline
December 7, 2010
fshfndr: "If fishermen want to save salmon, they need to work closely with farmers and others who live and work in the delta and along our seashores to understand the problems they all face and to help find a solution from which all can benefit." (quoted from author of article)
Farmers like Westlands, Dudley Ridge, San Luis and Mendota Districts who are bankrolling the lawyers like Hayes to exlcude fishermen from the table, undermine the science and mislead the media on "congress created dustbowls"? You mean those guys?
It should be the Farmers trying to work with fisherman on how to restore what over pumping has destoyed. Comprimising with farming has got us where we are now, thousands of lost fishing jobs and the destruction of the West Coasts biggest estuary, on par with the great Everglades.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/opinionshop/detail?entry_id=78510#ixzz17TfCHyXW
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3.
From SF Gate- Zeke Grader
State report's recipe for a restored delta: More water
July 28, 2010
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/zgrader/detail?entry_id=68852#ixzz17TPd4NHS
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2.
From Modesto Bee
Save water: Retire ruined land
October 14, 2010
Lionfig: When fast food resturants stop giving free refills of soda (we produce too much sugar) and when our overweight population drops a few pounds I would agree with you. You farmers over produce sugar and oils and dairy products which causes an over weight population thus increasing healthcare costs. If we need to import more food to save water for the environment I am for that. Farmers are some of the most selfish self-centered people I have ever meet. "Right to Farm" is more like a "right to be rude".
Read more: http://www.modbee.com/2010/10/13/1382317/save-water-retire-ruined-land.html#ixzz17NBe1DnO
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From SF Chronicle
San Joaquin River flowing through dry stretches
March 31, 2010
m_thomas: Screw the farmers - all they want is subsidies and to continue farming in their unsustainable ways. Besides, most are large corporations anyway. They waste an incredible amount of water because they don't invest in new irrigation technologies. Maybe this will force them to adopt different techniques.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/article?f=/c/a/2010/03/30/MNMT1CNJ64.DTL
People by nature are drawn to disasters. Just about every burning car in the U.S. winds up on cable news. Why? Because people will watch. Try to drive by a fender bender without taking a look and chances are you won’t be able to do it.
If you’re into that sort of thing you have a chance this week to see a real live disaster. Head over to the Sacramento River south of the city and look at all of the water flowing by. Starting last Monday and Tuesday the Bureau of Reclamation opened the gates at Folsom and Shasta to reduce reservoir levels at the combined rate of 30,000 cubic feet per second. There are currently 88,000 acre-feet of water per day flowing past the town of Freeport south of Sacramento. Flows of this magnitude are way more than necessary for required environmental flows through the Delta.
Why is this increase in flows a tragedy? Because the water is flowing out to the ocean instead of being diverted to San Luis Reservoir where there currently is space to store additional water for use next year. Pumps that would normally redirect the water flow are operating at less than capacity and further cutbacks are expected any day now because of environmental restrictions.
But for now in order to prevent the alternative disaster of a flood we have to let the water go. So get in your car, take a drive and have a look at all of the water that isn’t doing anything but…but nothing. It’s just going away.
Obama Administration Release Report Announcing Support for Peripheral Canal
Blog
from Indybay – Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010
Bay-Delta plan faces stormy seas ahead
Editorial
from Sacramento Bee – Friday, Dec. 17, 2010
Smelt, Storms, Surfing and Science
Blog
from SF Chronicle – Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010
Valley farmer pays to fix seepage, wants fed to help
Story
from Fresno Bee – Friday, Dec. 17, 2010
Why some of us didn’t cover the tunnels announcement
Blog
from Fresno Bee – Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010
Denham: ‘Water will be primary focus’
Story
from Merced Sun Star – Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010
Coalition viewpoint...Yesterday’s announcement by State and federal officials about moving forward with the BDCP is welcome news for most California water users. It would have been unanimous except for the expected response from certain environmental groups who continue to play a delaying game against restoring reliable water supplies and a restored Delta ecosystem. Their immediate objection to proposed tunnels, which would provide additional safeguards for fish and be paid for by water users, is unreasonable and only results in continued delays and increased costs.
Officials Back Plan to Restore California Bay Delta
Story
from NY Times – Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010
State faces pivotal point in water future
Viewpoint
from Sacramento Bee – Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010
By Ken Salazar and David J. Hayes
California $13 Billion Water Tunnel Gets Federal, State Support
Story
from SF Chronicle – Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010
California urges tunnel system for delta
Story
from LA Times – Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010
Fed, state officials back underground tunnels for Delta
Story
from The Record – Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010
Delta plan gets a nod from federal government
Story
From Contra Costa Times – Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010
Bay Delta Conservation Plan has Major Flaws
News Release
from EDF – Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010
Californians Who Rely on Delta at “Severe Risk”
Radio
from KQED – Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010
Tunnels touted as solution to Delta water woes
from Western Farm Press – Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010
Underground tunnels proposed for Calif. water woes
from Ventura County Star – Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010
Underground Tunnels Proposed for Calif. Water Woes
from CBS-TV 2/LA – Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010
Underground tunnels proposed for Calif. water woes
from SD Union Tribune – Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010
Underground tunnels proposed for state’s water woes
from North County Times – Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010
Underground tunnels proposed for Calif. water woes
Story
from Fresno Bee – Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010
Financing a Big Delta Tunnel will Require Big Water Exports
Blog
from Valley Economy – Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010
By Dr. Jeffrey Michael, UOP
How to Choose Between Fish and Farmers?
Blog
from NY Times – Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010
By Felicity Barringer
Editorial
from Fresno Bee – Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010
Delta ruling doesn't mean much -- yet
Editorial
from Bakersfield Californian | Wednesday, Dec 15 2010 06:23 PM
Water ruling favors folks over the fish
Story
from Santa Clarita Signal – Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010
Story
from SJ Mercury News – Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010
Water board take son big-city interests
Editorial
from Modesto Bee – Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010
Local lawmakers offer legislation to help sewage district clean up wastewater and also to sell it
Story
from Sacramento Bee – Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010
Coalition viewpoint...Unjustified, bad science, over-appropriation, sloppy science, uni-directional prescriptions that ignore California’s water needs, arbitrary, capricious and material bias are all terms used by the judge in describing the failure by FWS in developing the current biological opinion to protect smelt. These terms strike at the core of the reasoning used by FWS that resulted in job losses, fallowed fields and an increased number of farmworkers forced to stand in food lines. California water is too valuable a resource to be subjected to governance by a federal agency that fails to adequately provide for the people of our state.
(Read the judge’s opinion by clicking here and scrolling down.)
U.S. agency’s smelt plan ‘arbitrary,’ judge rules
Story
from SF Chronicle – Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010
A federal judge has ruled that a landmark 2008 environmental study laying the groundwork for controversial water cutbacks from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta relied on faulty science.
Judge slams ‘sloppy’ smelt rules
Story
from The Record – Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010
A federal judge on Tuesday struck down rules protecting the diminutive Delta smelt, saying that the public cannot afford “sloppy science” and one-way remedies that “ignore California’s water needs.”
Judge says Delta pumping rules, meant to protect fish, are too restrictive
from SJ Mercury News – Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010
Judge says Delta pumping rules, meant to protect fish, are too restrictive
Story
from Contra Costa Times – Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010
The same federal judge who helped set in motion protests in California’s farm country when he ruled three years ago that Delta pumping limits were too lax to prevent fish from going extinct determined Tuesday the new regulations go too far the other way.
Federal judge rejects parts of plan to protect Delta smelt
from Sacramento Bee – Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010
Federal judge finds major flaws in smelt plan
Story
from Fresno Bee – Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010
A federal judge in Fresno on Tuesday invalidated key parts of a much-debated plan to protect the threatened delta smelt.
Federal judge orders rewrite of delta smelt plan
from KFSN – Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010
Federal judge orders rewrite of delta smelt plan
from Modesto Bee – Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010
Federal judge orders rewrite of delta smelt plan
from Ventura County Star – Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010
Federal judge orders rewrite of delta smelt plan
from North County Times – Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010
Federal judge orders rewrite of delta smelt plan
Story
from Fresno Bee – Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to rewrite parts of its plan to protect a tiny, threatened fish that lives in California’s freshwater delta.
Statement by Westlands Water District regarding the U.S. District Court ruling on Delta smelt
Statement
from Aquafornia – Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010
Today the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California issued its decision on the validity of the Delta smelt biological opinion...
State Water Contractors response to Judge Wanger’s ruling
Statement
From Aquafornia – Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010
A federal judge overruled today most of the 2008 federal biological opinion for Delta smelt and directed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to rewrite the opinion.
PLF Statement on Judge Wanger’s ruling declaring the Delta smelt biological opinion to be illegal
Statement
from Aquafornia – Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010
This afternoon, Federal Judge Oliver Wanger of the Eastern District of California issued his long-awaited ruling in the The Consolidated Delta Smelt Cases...
Statement
from Aquafornia – Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010
In March of 2009...a lawsuit against the US Department of the Interior and US Fish and Wildlife Service....
Judge’s Ruling on Biological Opinion Confirms Overall Approach, Asks for Refinement
Blog
from NRDC – Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010
Today, Judge Wanger issued his long-awaited ruling on the legality of the Fish & Wildlife Service’s protections for threatened and endangered fish in the Delta.
Editorial
from North County Times – Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010
Two recent news stories serve to illustrate the odd and misplaced priorities that we Californians have.
Some question claims of New Melones draining
Story
from Sonora Union Democrat – Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010
Oakdale Irrigation District last week stunned county leaders with assertions that new Melones Reservoir will periodically go dry due to federal efforts to protect downstream fish.
Effort Falters on San Francisco Bay Delta
Story
from NY Times – Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010
A high-stakes effort to remake the San Francisco Bay Delta, the West coast’s largest estuary, is looking as fragile as the degraded delta itself these days.
Dam operators prepare for rain
Story
from Redding Record Searchlight – Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010
Dam operators have more than doubled Sacramento River flows to make room in lake Shasta as forecasters call for a week of rain starting Friday.
