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Feds to Deliver More Water to California Farms
Federal water managers are boosting deliveries to cities and farms throughout California’s Central Valley. The announcement Thursday by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar comes after a series of spring storms grew the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada. Contractors north of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta will get 100 percent of their total allocations. That’s double than what [...]
Continue reading...California Shortages Not Over, Water Resources Agency Says (LA Times)
Monday, April 5, 2010
Despite a return to normal snowpack and precipitation this winter, state officials said water shortages will continue this summer and urged continued conservation efforts. The Department of Water Resources on Thursday slightly increased allocations in the state system that helps supply urban Southern California. Managers said they might be able to raise projected deliveries again [...]
Continue reading...U.S. Opens Spigot for California Farms (Wall Street Journal)
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a sharp increase in federal water supplies for California’s agricultural Central Valley, further easing drought concerns in a state where El Niño rains have raised the mountain snowpack after three severely dry years. Mr. Salazar said water allocations from the Central Valley Project in California, a system of aqueducts and [...]
Continue reading...Underground tunnel gets closer look for shipping water through Delta
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
A giant tunnel – not a canal – has emerged as the leading option to ship Sacramento River water across the Delta to thirsty Californians from theSilicon Valley to San Diego. Officials guiding the Bay Delta Conservation Planchose the tunnel for more detailed study at a meeting Thursday in Sacramento. The plan is an effort to secure California water supplies from [...]
Continue reading...State Has 4 Days to Write Water Plan: Legislators Optimistic About Decades-Old Issue
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
(Ventura County Star) Most Californians know the adage about which beverage is for drinking and which is for fighting over, so it seemed appropriate last week that Assemblyman Kevin Jeffries, R-Riverside, did not reach for a bottle of Arrowhead when a special legislative conference committee began to tackle its challenge of producing a comprehensive water [...]
Continue reading...Obama Administration to begin taking action on California water crisis
Monday, August 17, 2009
(examiner.com) Most of California’s 37 million residents know the importance of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, even if they themselves do not realize it. The freshwater estuary provides drinking water to more than 23 million California residents, nearly two-thirds of the state total, and irrigates over 2 million acres of farmland. It would be folly to [...]
Continue reading...Calif. Adds ‘Delta Tunnel’ to List of Possible Water Supply Solutions
Monday, August 10, 2009
35-mile tunnel under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta might help solve some of the state’s water supply problems. (NY Times) Teresa Engstrom, chief of the delta engineering branch at the California Department of Water Resources, confirmed that the agency is conducting feasibility studies on an “all tunnel” option that would route water under the Bay [...]
Continue reading...Interior chief says Calif. water system outdated
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
(examiner.com) RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif.–Interior Secretary Ken Salazar urged California on Wednesday to modernize its antiquated water system while pledging $260 million in federal stimulus money to help fund a variety of water projects. He and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger took an aerial tour of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the conduit through which Northern California water flows [...]
Continue reading...American Rivers Names Sacramento-San Joaquin As Most Endangered
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
by Dan Bacher American Rivers, a Washington D.C.-based conservation organization, has named the Sacramento-San Joaquin River system, now in its biggest ever ecological crisis, as the most endangered river in the nation. The group released “America’s Most Endangered Rivers, 2009 Edition” today. The annual report identifies ten rivers, including the Flint River in Georgia and [...]
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