Debunking the myth of having to choose between water for people vs water for fish
Last week, the San Diego Union Tribune published an editorial on water policy and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Not only did the editorial get many of the...
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California's 2009 Water Supply Announcement Demonstrates Need to Tap Into the "Virtual River"
DWR's announcement of initial water delivery allocations is a painful reminder of the need to reduce our dependence on the Delta as the major water supply...
Report from Los Angeles Business Group Suggests that Southern California Will Meet its Water Needs Through the "Virtual River", Not New Dams and Reservoirs
Yesterday, the Southern California Leadership Council -- a business group that includes AT&T, Bank of America, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern...
Water management in California threatens the future of California's salmon fishery
Today NRDC released a report with commercial and recreational fishermen entitled “Fish Out of Water: How Water Management in the Bay-Delta Threatens the Future...
“Waiter, there’s a dead delta smelt in my drinking water!”: why your drinking water might taste like cucumbers, if certain legislators get their way
California’s water supply system (the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project) relies on two sets of massive pumps in the Delta to deliver water to...
The D-Word(s): Drought and the Disaster for Salmon, and Salmon Fishermen
As just about everyone has heard by now, the Governor has declared that California is in a drought , and as a result, he subsequently declared a state of...