Los Angeles Times: Gov. Brown Defends Order to Cut Water Use 25% in Face of Opposition Bay Area News Group: Brown shrugs off cities’ water complaints Sacramento Bee: Sacramento-area water agencies push back against proposed water cuts NPR: California Cities Struggle To Enforce Mandatory Water Restrictions San Francisco Chronicle: Some say they’ll get soaked by state’s big water cutbacks Bloomberg News: Despite […]
Continue ReadingThis is a message from the State Water Resources Control Board. Attached here is a Revised Notice of Opportunity to Comment on the Proposed Non-Regulatory Amendments To Administratively Update Chapter 1: “Introduction”, Chapter 5 “Plans And Policies”, And Chapter 6 “Monitoring And Assessment” By Incorporating Updated Information, Tables And Figures Of The Water Quality Control […]
Continue ReadingStates Secure ‘Primacy’ Role In House Bill To Force CWA Rule Re-Proposal Inside EPA Daily News, April 15, 2015 House lawmakers have amended a bill to force EPA to re-propose its Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction rule by inserting language to protect states’ “primacy” over water rights law, advancing the bill through the transportation panel after […]
Continue ReadingDepartment of Water Resources: DWR moves to install first drought barrier on West False River Sacramento Bee: California to build temporary Delta dam Associated Press: Winter rains, snowfall likely won’t end California’s drought, forecasters say NPR: How Almonds Became A Scapegoat For California’s Drought Los Angeles Times: Cities criticize California water cuts as unfair, unrealistic NPR: Redistribute California’s Water? Not Without […]
Continue ReadingThis is a message from the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Francisco Bay Region (2). Attached here is a Tentative Order to rescind historical Order No. 87-170. Comments are being accepted until May 15, 2015, by 5:00 p.m. See transmittal letter for details.
Continue ReadingThe House Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee will convene today (Wednesday, April 15) at 1000 am EDT to mark up the Fiscal Year 2016 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill (E&W). The House E & W Bill proposes to fund the Corps of Engineers Civil Works Program at $5.6 billion, this amount is $142 […]
Continue ReadingU.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations: Appropriations Committee Releases Fiscal Year 2016 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill Sacramento Bee: Area water agencies push back against level of cuts Sacramento Bee: Drought economic harm ‘limited’ Business Insider: One chart sums up the real problem in the California drought — and it isn’t almonds Wired: Wired’s Guide To Produce that […]
Continue ReadingBegin the Application Process Now for Funding for Recycled Water Projects The State Water Board is calling on all agencies developing recycled water projects to reach out and begin the application Proposition 1 (2014 Water Bond) funds as soon as possible. Funding available for recycled water projects Given the dire drought situation in […]
Continue ReadingAssociated Press: Huge California Water Supplier Plans to Reduce Deliveries San Francisco Chronicle: Higher water rates on tap as utilities cover losses from drought Los Angeles Times: Decision in San Juan Capistrano case may set water rate precedent New York Times: California’s Cycles of Drought The Sonoma State Star: Realities of the California drought U.S. News & World Report: Climate Change […]
Continue ReadingClick here to view the Notice of Opportunity to Comment on the Proposed Non-Regulatory Amendments To Administratively Update Chapter 1: “Introduction”, Chapter 5 “Plans And Policies”, And Chapter 6 “Monitoring And Assessment” By Incorporating Updated Information, Tables And Figures Of The Water Quality Control Plan For The Los Angeles Region. Comment Deadline is May 10, 2015 by 12 […]
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