Water Supply
From: Editorial Staff,
Riverside Press-Enterprise
California cannot prosper without
highways, bridges or water systems. Yet the state's approach to such necessary
infrastructure is haphazard and shortsighted, a new report warns. Legislators
instead need to take a long-term view, setting careful priorities for
infrastructure spending and ensuring the state's capacity to maintain and
improve public facilities.
The state auditor released a
report last month detailing "high-risk" areas for state government.
And prominent among the auditor's concerns was the state's deteriorating
transportation and water infrastructure.
From: Staff, Fresno Business
Journal
The award-winning documentary,
"The Fight for Water: A Farm Worker Struggle", received a Best
Documentary award at the Viña de Oro Fresno International Film Festival held
Oct. 16 - 19 at the historic Tower Theatre in Fresno.
The film, which features a
historic water march from the west side of the San Joaquin Valley to the San
Luis Reservoir by farmers and farm workers, screened Oct. 19 as the closing
film of the festival.
Salton Sea
From: Press Release, Imperial
Irrigation District
The Imperial County Board of
Supervisors and the directors of the Imperial Irrigation District held a
special signing ceremony today at the Salton Sea commemorating a Memorandum of
Understanding that outlines how the county, the Imperial County Air Pollution
Control District and the IID will work together to restore California's largest
and most troubled inland lake and avert severe harm to public health, the local
economy and wildlife habitat resulting from its continued decline in water
quality and elevation.
From: Antoine Abou-Diwan,
Imperial Valley Press
Officials from the Imperial
Irrigation District and Imperial County signed a memorandum of understanding
Thursday that outlines how the two agencies will cooperate to restore the
Salton Sea.
From: Erica Felci, Desert
Sun
Surrounded by lake bed exposed by
the receding shoreline, regional officials on Thursday finalized a historic
deal they hope will add momentum to the much-discussed Salton Sea restoration
effort.
From: Matt Dessert and Ray
Castillo, SD Union-Tribune
Situated at the economic and
environmental crossroads of the nation's largest agricultural-to-urban water
transfer and the future well-being of Southern California's binational border
region, the Salton Sea has reached a tipping point.
Sustained mainly by agricultural
runoff from the farms and fields of the Imperial Valley, the state's largest
and most troubled body of water has been in decline for a generation or more, a
trend the 2003 signing of the Quantification Settlement Agreement (QSA) was
supposed to arrest and ultimately reverse.
But that hasn't happened.
Groundwater
From: Garth Stapley, Modesto
Bee
Pumping is an artificial way of
"releasing" underground water. When too much pumping threatens the supply,
could artificial replenishing be a solution?
Hydrogeologist Chris Petersen
thinks so, and he's ready to tell all about it.
From: Jim Johnson, Monterey
County Herald
Two months after the state water
board approved rules for agricultural water quality, a panel of experts
discussed a slew of ways the Salinas Valley could address the issue at a public
forum at CSU Monterey Bay on Thursday.
Officials from Ventura County and
the Central Valley outlined their methods for dealing with ag water quality
regulations, including a cooperative approach with regional water board
officials, use of best management practices and a farmers-only coalition.
From: D.L. Taylor, Salinas
Californian
One of the impediments to
improving Salinas Valley groundwater quality is, ironically, the regulatory
process established to protect it, a consensus of experts said Thursday during
a panel discussion at California State University, Monterey Bay.
Fisheries
From: Alex Breitler, Stockton
Record
Another near-record salmon run is
expected on the Stanislaus River this fall, while farther north, thousands of
fish are already splashing their way up the Mokelumne River past Lodi.
From: David Perlman, SF
Chronicle
Researchers who fattened young
chinook salmon in flooded fields after the rice harvest last winter reported
Thursday that the fish grew fast and to record sizes, offering a promising new
way to improve survival of the long-threatened salmon.
From: Kat Kerlin, Davis
Enterprise
From a fish-eye view, rice fields
in California's Yolo Bypass provide an all-you-can-eat bug buffet for juvenile
salmon seeking nourishment on their journey to the sea.
That's according to a new report
detailing the scientific findings of an experiment that planted fish in
harvested rice fields earlier this year, resulting in the fattest,
fastest-growing salmon on record in the state's rivers.
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