A federal appeals court on Thursday largely upheld a 2008 plan that called for restrictions on water deliveries from California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to protect a tiny, threatened fish. A state appellate court dropped a bomb late Thursday on the early stages of the state’s plan to divert fresh Northern California water under or around the
A state water official said Thursday that despite the "horrifying" drought gripping the state, there's still a chance that farmers will get San Joaquin River water this summer instead of the "zero allocation" announced. "I'm hoping that it's not going to be zero," Felicia Marcus, chairwoman of the State Water Resources Control Board, said at
No doubt everyone in California, and the other West Coast states suffering this drought, will feel the lack of water sooner rather than later. But towns like Mendota (pop.: approx. 10,000), will bear the brunt of it. One of the poorest towns in the poorest region in California, Mendota, Cantaloupe Center of the World, has
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In the short-term, the drought could cause California to lose some of the 1 million jobs Brown says he added since 2010 to help bring the state back from its worst recession since the 1930s. “Given direct and indirect impact, you could see a loss of 37,600 jobs, about 24,000 of those from agriculture,” said
Merced Irrigation District officials on Tuesday took the first step toward raising water rates for growers and may seek to increase a maintenance assessment, commonly referred to as a standby fee, for all farmers in the district. The MID board voted unanimously to conduct a cost services study and an engineer’s report to explore increasing
Federal authorities are shutting down water releases for the San Joaquin River restoration, making the water available for 30,000 people in small communities who face the possibility of summer with dry taps. The restoration releases, which began in 2009, won't resume until at least March 2015, according to the federal Bureau of Reclamation, owner and
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission notified the State Water Resources Control Board it is offering to expedite drought and conservation related license amendments: Click here for link
California's record-setting drought stands to do major harm to the state's ability to generate hydroelectric power, with a possible drop in output from just the state's ten largest hydro power plants potentially exceeding the loss of generating capacity from the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant. http://www.kcet.org/news/rewire/hydroelectric/drought-may-slash-states-hydroelectric-power.html