Water Supply
From: Antoine abou-Diwan,
Imperial Valley Press
The Imperial Irrigation District
held a public meeting Wednesday to discuss water conservation measures with the
people they impact the most - Imperial Valley farmers.
Although the IID holds senior
water rights to Colorado River water, it is under heavy scrutiny by regulators
and other water agencies as it repays past water overruns and fulfills its
water transfer obligations.
Water Bond
From: Editorial Staff, Merced Sun-Star
From: Editorial Staff, Fresno Bee
From: Editorial Staff, Modesto Bee
(This editorial was printed
previously in the Sacramento Bee.)
With dry conditions igniting
fires statewide and reservoirs dropping ever lower, state lawmakers should be
thinking about water. The good thing - they are. They are thinking about a 2014
water bond.
Colorado
River
From: Antoine Abou-Diwan,
Imperial Valley Press
The way that Imperial Irrigation
District uses its entitlement of Colorado River water is being scrutinized once
again.
A letter from Southern Nevada
Water Authority to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service questions whether the IID's
delivery of water to the Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge is
permissible under federal law.
Water
Districts
From: Staff, Merced Sun-Star
The Merced Irrigation District
announced Thursday it will continue sponsoring solar energy research at UC
Merced for the third year in a row.
Bay Delta
Conservation Plan
From: Alex Breitler, Stockton
Record
Normally content to boast about
their favorite birds or gaze at them through binoculars, members of the Lodi
Sandhill Crane Association suddenly find themselves immersed in a fierce
controversy over state water policy.
The association's board voted
last week to oppose the new alignment of the governor's proposed twin tunnels,
which would now run beneath Staten Island, a key wintering home for 15 percent
of the Central Valley's migratory cranes, a threatened species in California.
From: Anne Marie Fuller, Tracy
Press
As I write this week's column
about the Delta water tunnels, I can almost hear the television theme song of
"Bonanza" playing in the distance. Is this a simple issue of water
rights...or could it be something else?
The plan proposed by California
Governor Jerry Brown calls for two massive tunnels to be built below the
Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta that would take water from the Sacramento River
and transport it down south. This project would impact the existing highways in
the area, which would need to be reconfigured to accommodate the tunnels. Cost
for this program is estimated to run in the billions.
People
From: Alex Breitler,
eSanJoaquin
San Joaquin County Supervisor
Larry Ruhstaller said at a meeting this week that in October he will join the
Delta Stewardship Council, an entity which a number of organizations including
the city of Stockton just happen to be suing right now.
Ruhstaller will replace
Sacramento County Supervisor Don Nottoli on the council, which recently
finished a controversial 100-year plan for the Delta - a plan that may
ultimately include the governor's proposed twin tunnels.
Meetings
From: Staff, Sierra Sun Times
The Department of Water Resources
(DWR) is sponsoring events throughout the fall in preparation for the
possibility that water year 2014 could be a third consecutive dry year.
Preparing for the potential of continued dry conditions is also the focus of a
joint California State Board of Food and Agriculture - California Water
Commission meeting next week.
From: Staff, KTXL-40 TV
The California Department of
Water Resources is asking the public to prepare for a possibly dry 2014, which
could be the third dry year in a row.
State officials say 2012 was the
25th-driest year on record and even though 2013 started off with more rain than
usual, it eventually dried out.
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