Water Reliability & Conveyance

$2,200 Water!

"Traded water" represents a relatively small part of all water used by Californians but it has grown significantly over the past three decades. (A good deal of the water is bought and delivered under long-term contracts through an intricate network of state and federal aqueducts.) Annual trades in the early 1980s averaged just over 100,000

“Monumental” Court Ruling in Public Trust Doctrine & Groundwater

A Sacramento Superior Court judge issued a ruling Tuesday requiring regulation of groundwater pumping to protect a river in Siskiyou County. Attorneys on both sides say it's the first time a California court has ruled the "public trust doctrine" applies to groundwater. The doctrine says the State of California holds all waterways for the benefit

The Next Water War Will Be in Southern California

The next water war between California and Arizona won't be such an amusing little affair. And it's coming soon. The issue still is the Colorado River. Overconsumption and climate change have placed the river in long-term decline. It's never provided the bounty that was expected in 1922, when the initial allocations among the seven states

By |2014-07-04T09:15:43-07:00July 4th, 2014|Climate Change, Water Reliability & Conveyance|

State Supreme Court to Rule on “Epic” Delta Tunnels Condemnation Case

The California Supreme Court has agreed to decide an epic battle over whether the state must condemn and acquire parcels on tens of thousands of acres of private property to conduct preliminary testing for Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to construct two large water-conveyance tunnels in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The two tunnels – nearly 40

By |2014-07-04T09:10:32-07:00July 4th, 2014|Agriculture, Water Reliability & Conveyance|

Delta PAC Opposes Water Bond

Critics of Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to build massive water conveyance tunnels under the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta are launching a political action committee to battle any water bond that could facilitate the Bay Delta Conservation Plan. Their goal is to raise at least $1 million for the effort. "Legally they cannot build the tunnels

By |2014-06-23T13:50:04-07:00June 23rd, 2014|Water Reliability & Conveyance|

Del Puerto OKs Smaller Export Sale

A scaled-back version of a controversial project to sell groundwater out of Merced County was unanimously approved by Del Puerto Water District board members this week – one of the two Stanislaus County water districts benefiting from the multimillion-dollar sale. http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2014/06/05/3684236/water-district-approves-merced.html?sp=/99/100/&ihp=1

By |2014-06-15T16:38:36-07:00June 15th, 2014|Water Reliability & Conveyance|

Desal: “Everybody is Watching Carlsbad”

The crews are building what boosters say represents California's best hope for a drought-proof water supply: the largest ocean desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere. The $1 billion project will provide 50 million gallons of drinking water a day for San Diego County when it opens in 2016. Fifteen desalination projects are proposed along the

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