Water Supply
From: Chris Austin, Maven's
Notebook
Senators from California and
Oregon today introduced the California Emergency Drought Relief Act of 2014, a
bill to help California and Oregon farmers, businesses and communities
suffering from historic drought conditions. The legislation-which comes on the
heels of weekend rain in California and Oregon and snow in the Sierra-was
introduced by Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer (both D-Calif.) and
Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley (both D-Ore.).
From: Tom Birmingham,
Westlands Water District
Westlands Water District is
encouraged with the introduction by Senator Dianne Feinstein and Senator
Barbara Boxer of the California Emergency Drought Relief Act of 2014, and
Westlands supports the passage of the legislation. Notwithstanding the rainfall
and snow California has enjoyed over the last week, the State is facing
unprecedented drought conditions. Water supply reductions resulting from these
extraordinary dry conditions have been exacerbated by the implementation in
prior years of regulations imposed under federal law on the operations of the
federal Central Valley Project (CVP) and the California State Water Project
(SWP). The legislation introduced today would provide much needed relief for
the public water agencies that receive water from these projects and for the
people, farms, and businesses they serve.
From: Lenny Bernstein,
Washington Post
Without help from the heavens,
Joe Del Bosque figures that 2014 will be the last year before many family
farmers in California's vast San Joaquin Valley begin to go bankrupt.
From: Garth Stapley, Modesto
Bee
Because of minimal mountain snow,
Modesto-area farmers this year would get half of last year's amount of water
under a proposal to be weighed this morning - and they would pay a lot more for
it.
From: Blain Roberts and Ethan
J. Kytle, NY Times
Every Saturday in late December
and January, as reports of brutal temperatures and historic snowfalls streamed
in from family in Vermont, New York and even southern Louisiana, we made weekly
pilgrimages to our local beer garden to enjoy craft brews and unseasonably warm
afternoons.
From: Debora Villalon, KTVU 2
The pounding rain in the North
Bay caused its fair share of problems over the weekend with floods, fallen
trees and slides. But for water managers and winemakers, there's no question
that the trouble was worth it. Napa received more rain in three days on Friday,
Saturday and Sunday, than in all of 2013.
From: Scott Sonner, AP
Sierra ski resorts and
drought-stricken farmers are rejoicing after a weekend storm dumped up to 5
feet of snow on top of the mountains and brought near-record rainfall to Lake
Tahoe.
From: Tony Botti, Your Central
Valley
President Obama has not been to
Fresno since taking office in 2009. He's heard lots of outcries from the
west about our water woes and now growers and city leaders hope seeing is
believing.
Water is what fuels business in
the city of Mendota.
From: Rabu Chebium, Visalia
Times-Delta
President Barack Obama's visit to
Fresno on Friday will shine a spotlight on California's long-running drought
and underscore its impact on the Central Valley, one of the worst-hit regions
in the state. Obama is scheduled to discuss his administration's response to
the arid weather and additional steps that can be taken to cope with the
drought, which threatens to inflict more economic pain on California this year.
From: Jay Lund, California
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