Drought
From: Staff, KSEE 24
Scientists are estimating the
economic impact of the drought on the Central Valley's agriculture to be $1.7
billion. The study by scientists at UC Davis finds that the drought could cost
the Valley 14,500 agriculture jobs.
The California Department of Food
and Agriculture requested this report so that information on the socio-economic
impacts on the drought would be available and for lawmakers to have groundwork
available for any future policies.
From: Mark Koba, NBC News
The dry conditions in the western
U.S. are so bad that even many of the companies that are thriving in the
drought feel economic pain.
Case in point-Limoneira, of Santa
Paula, California, and one of the largest U.S. growers of lemons and avocados:
It reached record revenue of $100 million this year thanks to higher prices
brought on by a freeze in South America, said president and CEO Harold Edwards.
Despite the higher sales,
however, getting through the drought is costly, said Edwards, who noted that
his firm constantly monitors its underground wells so as not to overuse them.
From: Editorial, SF Gate
The test of any water policy is
not if it works in the wet times but if it protects widely shared public values
in the dry times.
So it is distressing to see Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., determined to toss out
water management policies and protections, worked out over 20 years to balance
the water needs of California cities, farms and the environment, in order to
serve some interests at the expense of others.
From: Katie Orr, Capital
Public Radio
California's drought may have a
lot of negative consequences, but a new report out today says the state's
economy won't be one of them. Katie Orr reports from Sacramento.
The report from Moody's Investors
Service finds, short term, California's economy won't suffer as a result of the
drought. It finds the state's reliance on income taxes and sales taxes will
largely provide a buffer. H.D. Palmer with the governor's Department of
Finance, agrees the state's economy has weathered the drought so far.
Salton Sea
From: Staff, San Diego
Union-Tribune
A federal appeals court says
environmental reviews were properly done on the nation's largest farm-to-city
water transfer, the latest ruling to uphold a 2003 agreement on how California
agencies divide that state's share of Colorado River water.
A three-judge panel of the 9th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that federal authorities properly
considered how the transfer from Imperial County to San Diego would affect the
Salton Sea, California's largest lake. The shrinking lake relies on water
runoff from Imperial Valley farms.
Groundwater
From: Ramona Giwargis,
Sacramento Bee
The fight for water during the
drought pitted Merced County farmers from opposite sides of the county against
one another in an emotional and lengthy Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday.
At issue was a controversial
contract allowing two private landowners in Merced County to sell up to
23,000-acre feet of groundwater to Stanislaus County.
Press Release
From: Staff, Friant Water
Authority
How the U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation has implemented the unprecedented release of water from Friant Dam
inorder to provide a Central Valley Project water supply down the San Joaquin
River to senior water rights holdersis being challenged in U.S. District Court
in Fresno by the Friant Water Authority and many of its member water agencies.
The case has been assigned to Hon. Lawrence J. O'Neill.
Those Friant Division
contractors, all of whom normally would otherwise be receiving supplies of CVP
water through the Friant-Kern and Madera canals, instead continue to face a
zero CVP water supply allocation from Reclamation. That has resulted in large
part because of the United States' decision last week to supply the San Joaquin
River Exchange Contractors from the river even though water was available from
other sources.
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