News articles and links from Feb. 29, 2012

WATER SUPPLY

Storm expected to provide a leap in rain, snowfall totals for Sacramento, Sierra

Story

From Sacramento Bee - Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012

Groundwater is key water supply that is overdrafted

Letter

From Sacramento Bee - Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012

Documentary highlights TID transformation

Editorial

From Modesto Bee - Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

Ousted scientist claims Salazar 'spun' Klamath dam removal reports

Story

From Record Searchlight - Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

Sierra snowpack at 30 percent of normal, but reservoirs are still pretty full

Story

From Contra Costa Times - Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

From Mercury News - Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

Brewing storm could help Calif.'s water woes

Story

From Appeal Democrat - Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

From CBS/47 TV - Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012

From KTVU/2 TV - Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

From Modesto Bee - Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012

From Stockton Record - Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

From Visalia Times-Delta - Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

More bad news from CA's Sierra snowpack survey

Story

From CBS/13 TV - Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

From CBS/47 TV - Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

From Fresno Bee - Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

From Santa Cruz Sentinel - Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

Modesto Irrigation District postpones talk of rate increases

Story

From Modesto Bee - Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

CONGRESS

Nunes water bill up for vote today

Story

From Stockton Record - Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012

The guy's got our water on the brain

Editorial

From Stockton Record - Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012

House water bill needs a burial at sea

Editorial

From Sacramento Bee - Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012

House can prevent Big Green's California dust bowl

Editorial

From Washington Examiner - Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

Damaging water measure needs to be rejected

Editorial

From Contra Costa Times - Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

House water bill bad for delta and environment

Opinion

By Rep. John Garamendi

From Modesto Bee - Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

News articles and links from Feb. 28, 2012

WATER SUPPLY

'Miracle' not likely for March

Story

From Mercury-Register - Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

The cost of a mild winter

TV news

From CBS-47 - Monday, Feb. 27, 2012

The water which quenched a dry land

Story

From The Signal - Monday, Feb. 27, 2012

California's Water: A verdeXchange expert panel on reimaging the State's water infrastructure

Q/A

From Planning Report - Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012

DELTA

Calif. delta water plan requires transparency

Editorial

From SF Chronicle - Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

Peripheral canal, Delta will be discussed at sustainability forum

Story

From Lodi News Sentinel - Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

Will a big quake leave our water supplies high and dry?

Story

From High-Desert Star - Monday, Feb. 27, 2012

Effort to fix the Delta approaching a critical juncture

Opinion

By Jill Duerig

From Oakland Tribune - Monday, Feb. 27, 2012

The Delta 101: Of levees, canals & whiskey


Blog

By Jayni Foley Hein

From Legal Planet - Monday, Feb. 27, 2012

FISHERIES

NOAA issues Klamath dam coho conservation permit; PacifiCorp to pay $510,000 annually for projects

Story

From Times-Standard - Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

CONGRESS

Bill puts families over fish

Press release

From Rep. Nunes - Tuesday, Feb. 28,2012

Congress moves to redistribute California's water

Opinion

By Rep. Grace F. Napolitano

From SF Chronicle - Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

Bill would steal 260 billion gallons of water annually from California salmon for wealthy water brokers

Story

From YubaNet - Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

Water bill in Congress promotes division, destroys state consensus

Viewpoint

By Rep. John Garamendi

From Sacramento Bee - Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

Rep. Nunes turns on California spigot

Editorial

From Investor's Business Daily - Monday, Feb. 27, 2012

Oppose the "State Water Rights Repeal Act" (H.R. 1837)

Blog

By Doug Obegi

From NRDC - Monday, Feb. 27, 2012

News articles and links from Feb. 27, 2012

Water supply

Water-conservation plan sought for California

Story

From Fresno Bee - Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012

From Merced Sun-Star - Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012

Coalition response...USBR water contractors already measure water deliveries to a higher degree of accuracy under federal water conservation plan rules that were adopted initially in 1992 and updated every three years since. Upstream, or lateral, measurement already achieves the same goal of farm-gate measurement because districts are able to calculate delivered quantities to individual farms. By using time and flow rates assigned to each farm on a specific distribution lateral ditch or canal, districts have been accurately measuring farm-gate deliveries to individual farms for years. Environmentalists would not accept either the federal measurement guidelines or lateral measurement calculations and argued against them even though from a practical standpoint they

achieve the same thing.

PEOPLE

Peter Gleick requests short-term leave of absence from Oakland's Pacific Institute

Story

From SJ Mercury News - Friday, Feb. 24, 2012

WATER SUPPLY

California water project won't be decided at poll

Story

From SF Chronicle - Monday, Feb. 27, 2012

Winter weather returns

Report

From NWS - Monday, Feb. 27, 2012

Water for the Bay area

Letter

From NY Times - Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012

Turlock Irrigation District board to weigh early season start

Story

From Modesto Bee - Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012

Modesto Irrigation District eyes higher rate for farm water

Story

From Modesto Bee - Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012

Bees and drought among top crop concerns in San Joaquin Valley

Story

From Modesto Bee - Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012

Water tops high-speed rail

Viewpoint

By Joseph M. Bowman

From Ventura County Star - Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012

Irrigation district delays delivery announcement

Story

From Fresno Business Journal - Friday, Feb. 24, 2012

DELTA

Delta Planning in 2012: No Drought of Activity

Blog

By Tom Philp

From SF Chronicle - Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012

Few alternatives to a Delta water tunnel

Letter

From Sacramento Bee - Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012

Wolk, eye on re-election, criticizes canal, child care cuts

Story

From Martinez Gazette - Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012

Delta council should address concerns

Letter

From Enterprise-Record - Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012

Planning document that cost $200 million to be among first salvos of water war

Story

From Whittier Daily News - Friday, Feb. 24, 2012

FISHERIES

$3.6 billion plan could help coho salmon; meeting on proposal set for Thursday

Story

From Record Searchlight - Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012

CONGRESS

County Farm Bureau backs Water Reliability Act

Letter

From Merced Sun-Star - Monday, Feb. 27, 2012

Contentious bill would reshape the restoration of San Joaquin River

Story

From Fresno Bee - Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012

From Modesto Bee - Monday, Feb. 27, 2012

News articles and links from Feb. 24, 2012

WATER SUPPLY

Dry winter means less water expected for farmers

Story

From Visalia Times-Delta - Friday, Feb. 24, 2012

Grape growers looking for rain in 2012

Story

From Western Farm Press - Friday, Feb. 24, 2012

Sacramento weather history suggests dry February will mean a drenched March

Story

From Sacramento Bee - Friday, Feb. 24, 2012

Few locals present for Salton Sea Authority's vote to support local restoration solution for the sea

Story

From Imperial Valley Press - Friday, Feb. 24, 2012

Hetch Hetchy has nothing to do with Don Pedro

Opinion

By Casey Hashimoto/Allen Short

From Modesto Bee - Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012

Irrigation districts: Hetch Hetchy claims untrue

Story

From SF Chronicle - Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012

Electronic snow survey brings more bad water news

Story

From Fresno Bee - Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012

From Modesto Bee - Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012

SWRCB study on hydroelectric power along key Delta tributaries ignores key information

Press release

From Healthy Delta for All - Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012

California Water: Planning for a Better Future

Report

From PPIC - February 2012

DELTA

Mark the date: March 3

Story

From The Record - Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012

Water Authority board affirms support for fixing Bay-Delta

Press release

From SD County Water Authority - Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012

FISHERIES

Local net pens would boost salmon population

Story

From Half Moon Bay Review - Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012

CONGRESS

Take valley lawmaker's water bill off table

Editorial

From Monterey Herald - Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012

Response to San Francisco Chronicle

Statement

By Rep. Tom McClintock

From Rep. McClintock - Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012

News articles and links from Feb. 23, 2012

WATER SUPPLY

The not-so-vast conspiracy

Editorial

From Wall Street Journal - Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012

Expanding water storage capacity in California

Blog

By Jay Lund

From California WaterBlog - Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012

DWR reduces State Water Project allocation

Press release

From DWR - Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012

Decrease in allocation announced for State Water Project

Press release

From KCWA - Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012

Reclamation announces initial 2012 Central Valley Project water supply allocation

Press release

From USBR - Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012

Birmingham statement---Bureau of Reclamation allocation announcement

Press release

From Westlands WD - Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012

Dry season forces State to lower State Water Project delivery projections to 50%

Press release

From SWC - Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012

Low rainfall could mean restrictions; water agencies announce usage cuts of up to 70%

Story

From Record Searchlight - Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012

Feds offer dismal Central Valley farm water forecast, citing dry winter

Story

From Fresno Bee - Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012

State, federal water agencies offer optimistic delivery forecast

Story

From Western Farm Press - Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012

Calif., federal officials say water allocation low

Story

From Fresno Bee - Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012

From CBS/47 TV - Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012

Water worries

TV news

From CBS/47 TV - Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012

Denham: 30% water allocation by Bureau of Reclamation 'unacceptable'

Story

From Merced Sun-Star - Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012

Reclamation and Natural Resources Conservation Service provide funding opportunity for water conservation

Press release

From USBR - Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012

DELTA

Delta Plan won't alter water rights

Letter

From Chico Enterprise-Record - Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012

Everyone invited to meeting on determining Delta projects all stakeholders can support

Announcement

From Aquafornia - Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012

Brown may subvert democratic process to get canal or tunnel

Blog

By Burt Wilson

From Public Water News Service

FISHERIES

County requests approval of coho supplementation program

Story

From Siskiyou Daily News - Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012