Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
In this latest action alert, Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla of Restore the Delta urges you to call Assembly Speaker Karen Bass and let her know that cutting a deal on the state budget in exchange for a water bond including a peripheral canal is absolutely unacceptable!
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Federal officials on Monday plan to launch a second fish rescue on Prospect Island, the Delta tract where thousands of fish died last year after a levee repair project.
YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
A coalition of Central Valley water agencies that import water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta re-filed a lawsuit that attempts to blame the beleaguered striped bass for the collapse of delta smelt and Central Valley Chinook salmon -- signaling their resolve to confuse the public and blame others for the decline of the Delta fisheries.
Ag Alert (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
'Wet' counties are running dry, tooBy Kate CampbellAssistant Editor"Everybody thinks the water shortage only affects the San Joaquin Valley and that everything up here is hunky-dory," Glenn County farmer Mike Vereschagin said. But in the Sacramento Valley, many farmers struggle with water shortages similar to those affecting farmers to the south. The state's deepening water crisis is turning...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
• Meanwhile, still another federal judge has, in essence, seized control of the state's water system, ruling that continued exports from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta are illegally damaging fish populations. Even so, the governor, legislators and myriad water interests are continuing a decades-long deadlock over water policy, including how to repair the Delta's ecostructure....
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
... dams – and money for conservation, recycling and ecosystem improvements in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. But there's at least one key difference. Democrats want to be able to oversee water-storage spending yearly.Republicans, fearing that Democrats will pull the money for dams, are seeking a continuous appropriation, which is included in the governor's plan."They don't have a...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
The proposal is similar to the $9.3 billion bond pushed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has been trying to broker a water deal for two years. Both plans include $3 billion for storage - possibly including dams - and money for conservation, recycling and ecosystem improvements in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
