Los Angeles Times: Gov. Jerry Brown seeks fines of up to $10,000 a day for water wasters Sacramento Bee: Jerry Brown urges fines of up to $10,000 for water waste in California drought San Francisco Chronicle: Drought: Water wasters face $10,000 fine under Brown’s proposal Yahoo News: Amid drought, California’s Brown wants big fines for wasting water Los Angeles […]
Continue ReadingThis is a message from the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley (5). This notification pertains to the “Evaluation of the Municipal and Domestic Supply (MUN) Beneficial Use in Ag Dominated Surface Water Bodies” basin planning effort. Both MUN Basin Plan Amendments were on the agenda at the last Central Valley Water Board […]
Continue ReadingAssembly Member Anthony Rendon Named Legislator of the Year CASA Board Vice President, Kevin Hardy, presented Assembly Member Anthony Rendon with CASA’s Legislator of the Year award this morning at CASA’s Public Policy Forum in Sacramento. Assembly Member Rendon accepts CASA’s Legislator of the Year award from Kevin Hardy Assembly Member Rendon is a major […]
Continue ReadingCBS Sacramento: Farmers Press Lawmakers For More Water Storage Projects Sacramento Bee: Assembly panel kills Republican bill to speed dam construction Capital Public Radio: California Lawmakers Reject Attempt To Speed Up Water Storage Projects Sacramento Bee: See proposed water use cuts for every community in California Western Farm Press: California streamlines south-of-Delta water transfers Visalia Times-Delta: Water rights place neighbors at […]
Continue ReadingThank you to our Spring Mixer Sponsors: Water Board To Adopt Ocean Desalination Rules and RegulationsThe long awaited amendments to the California Ocean Plan relating to ocean desalination are set for an adoption hearing on May 6, 2015. After four years of multiple public workshops, several expert panels and studies a new rigorous 21st Century set […]
Continue ReadingLos Angeles Times: Import our water from wetter climes? It’s a pipe dream Sacramento Bee: Critics take aim at Nestlé bottled water plant in Sacramento Grist: Everything I thought I knew about water in California is wrong Sacramento Bee: California water use numbers should flow freely Central Valley Business Times: It’s all ears when water commissioners speak New York Times: Drought […]
Continue ReadingIssue No. 1 April 2015 Water Board To Adopt Ocean Desalination Rules and Regulations The long awaited amendments to the California Ocean Plan relating to ocean desalination are set for an adoption hearing on May 6, 2015. After four years of multiple public workshops, several expert panels and studies a new rigorous 21st Century set […]
Continue ReadingThis is a message from the State Water Resources Control Board. Attached here is the agenda for the May 5-6, 2015 Board Meeting of the State Water Resources Control Board.
Continue ReadingAssociated Press: California orders no water diversions despite legal rights Stockton Record: Curtailments; Drought deja vu; Junior water rights cut off again Reuters: Bill to ban fining Californians who let lawns go brown in drought Los Angeles Times: California Assembly acts to prohibit fines for brown lawns in droughts KTLA 5 Los Angeles: Amid Extreme Drought, JPL Scientists Use New Technology […]
Continue ReadingMEDIA ADVISORY: EPA, Justice Department, and State of California will announce a Clean Water Act settlement to protect San Francisco Bay Release Date: 04/23/2015 Contact Information: Suzanne Skadowski, U.S. EPA, 415-972-3165, skadowski.suzanne@epa.gov SAN FRANCISCO – On April 29, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Justice, and the State of California will announce a […]
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