This is a message from the State Water Resources Control Board. The State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board or Board) has updated its website with a Notice of Proposed Emergency Actions due to Insufficient Flow for Specific Fisheries in Tributaries to the Russian River and the proposed rulemaking package. The Notice of Proposed […]
Continue ReadingThis is a message from the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley (5). The attached document is a Notice of Informational Item concerning the basin planning effort to establish a region-wide process for evaluating the Municipal and Domestic Supply (MUN) beneficial use in agriculturally dominated surface water bodies. This informational item is scheduled […]
Continue ReadingNBC News: What Cuts to California Water Rights Mean, For Now Capital Public Radio News: California Drought: State Agency Revises Rules On Grass Kern Golden Empire: Impacts of new groundwater legislation Los Angeles Times: California water board to growers: Stop pumping Stockton Record: Mountain House water source dries up Yahoo Finance: California water fight raises free market issues RT: Liquid treasure: Water […]
Continue ReadingEveryone needs to deal with the drought BY JOHN A. COLEMAN AND KATHY TIEGS Published in The Sacramento Bee, June 15, 2015 There is nothing like an epic drought to get Californians talking about water. Wherever you go these days, people are discussing the latest news on water restrictions and sharing advice for reducing use over […]
Continue ReadingACWA Outreach Alert June 15, 2015 Letters, Calls Needed on Trailer Bill to Restructure Drinking Water Program Fees Opposition Letters Needed to Stop Proposal That Would Repeal Existing Safeguards ACWA is working with a coalition of public water agencies and investor-owned water utilities to stop budget trailer bill language that would restructure the current […]
Continue ReadingNew York Times: California Cuts Farmers’ Share of Scant Water Sacramento Bee: Gov. Jerry Brown pushes budget measure to consolidate water agencies New York Times: California’s Water Czar, Part Empathetic Confessor and Part Friendly Scold Associated Press: In California, nearly ironclad decades-old water rights halted amid lingering drought Modesto Bee: Governor should reduce water to fisheries, environment, county officials say […]
Continue ReadingThis is a message from the State Water Resources Control Board. Attached here is a Notice of Public Workshop regarding Summer and Fall Drought Related State Water Project and Central Valley Project Operations in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Watershed. The Workshop is scheduled for June 24, 2015.
Continue ReadingPlease, click here to access the revised agenda for the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) Meeting on June 16-17, 2015. Change Sheet #1 for Item 7 (LA MS4 Permit)
Continue ReadingThis is a message from the State Water Resources Control Board. June 12, 2015 NOTICE OF UNAVAILABILITY OF WATER AND NEED FOR IMMEDIATE CURTAILMENT FOR THOSE DIVERTING WATER IN THE SACRAMENTO-SAN JOAQUIN WATERSHEDS AND DELTA WITH A PRE-1914 APPROPRIATIVE CLAIM COMMENCING DURING OR AFTER 1903 The State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) is […]
Continue ReadingAssociated Press: California water wasters beware: #DroughtShaming is on the rise Associated Press: California tries to save salmon in Wine Country creeks Los Angeles Times: State attorney general challenges ruling against tiered water rates NPR: Some Answers To Your Questions About California Water Use Mercury News: California drought: El Niño continues to build, bringing increased chances of a wet winter […]
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