Water Supply
From: Timm Herdt, Ventura
County Star
State Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis, on
Tuesday presented a Senate committee with a proposal to place a scaled-down,
$6.9 billion water bond on the November ballot. She asserted the one now scheduled
to go before voters this fall is too bloated and controversial to pass.
Coalition response...State Sen. Fran Pavley's thoughts on substituting new water storage
construction with an effort to dredge silt from existing reservoirs sounds
reasonable but more things need to be considered before a final decision is
made. In her comparison to the storage capacity of a potential Sites Reservoir,
it is important to also consider the benefits to the Bay Delta in terms of
water quality and flexibility in managing flows through the estuary. New
storage is important for California for a variety of reasons, not all of which
can be met by increasing the volume of existing reservoirs by a little bit here
and there.
Water Supply
From: Staff, Your Central
Valley
Lawmakers introduce yet another
bill to bring water to thirsty Californians, but will an agreement ever be
reached? It's the second proposed drought relief bill in the last week, and the
ongoing fight to aid an historic drought is just ahead of President Obama's
historic visit to Fresno this Friday.
From: Dave Bryan, KCAL 9
Southern California's largest
supplier of water, the Metropolitan Water District, which provides water for 19
million people, declared a "Water Supply Alert" Tuesday in light of
California's historic drought. "I think there are things we can do as
far as the timing of any deliveries that we might get from Northern
California," Metropolitan Water District's Bob Muir said. "Backing off
(on water usage) until later in the year, and making that water available to
other parts of the state; primarily agriculture."
From: Jim Carlton and Siobhan
Hughes, Wall Street Journal
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for this article)
California's drought is becoming
a hot issue on Capitol Hill, where bills from Senate Democrats and House
Republicans offer rival solutions on how to best aid water-starved farmers.
Transfers
From: Garth Stapley, Modesto Bee
The Modesto Irrigation District
will explore creating a program to pay farmers for not irrigating, freeing up
some water to be offered at a premium price to others with crops suffering in
the drought. The price would be the same on both ends and would amount to a
water transfer brokered by the MID, something staff initially did not want to
do.
Technology
From: Chris Nichols, SD
Union-Tribune
California's water conservation
push hit the highways on Tuesday when Caltrans posted the message "Serious
Drought. Help Save Water" on its 700 electronic signs across the Golden
State.
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