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While Jerry Brown plans to slash the state budget, he is fast-tracking a government boondoggle that will deliver more subsidized water to corporate agribusiness interests so they can market the water back to the public for an enormous profit....

“More than five years into this process, the Bay Delta Conservation Plan still hasn’t met basic legal or scientific requirements,” said Rep. George Miller. “This is the last chance to fix it, and that’s why this delay is so important: it gives the scientists time to get it right. The Bay-Delta’s health is key to California’s future – we can either work out a good plan that reduces reliance on the Delta, or we can end up with increased litigation, uncertainty, and expense.” Photo: Congressm...

“Joe Grindstaff, with the Delta Stewardship Council (DSC), says the Delta Plan recommends new conveyance as a way to improve water quality," said Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director of Restore the Delta. "Without a water quality analysis that examines how eliminating fresh water flows from entering the Delta will affect water quality, this draft of the Delta Plan is as incomplete as the last draft.The Delta Stewardship Council must build its plan on a cost benefit analysis, a public...

“The proposed project, which some estimate will cost upwards of $50 billion, is not necessary and would result in massive ratepayer hikes and put our state even further into debt," said Kristin Lynch, Pacific Region Director with Food & Water Watch, a consumer advocacy organization....

"We hope that these new appointees will follow the law and uphold their fidicuiary reponsibility to the people of California," said Carolee Krieger. "They need to remove the paper water from contracts by revoking the grossly overpromised water rights permits in California water systems."...

The Sacramento splittail "salvage" was 7,660,024 in the federal facilities and 1,326,065 in the state facilities, a total of 8,986,089 fish, nearly 9 million splittail and a new salvage record for the species. The fish, formerly listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), is no longer listed. Photo of adult Sacramento splittail by California Department of Water Resources....

Under pressure from the oil industry, Brown fired Derek Chernow, then acting director of the state Department of Conservation, and oil and gas supervisor Elena Miller in order to expedite the granting of permits for risky injection projects after the permitting had slowed in 2010 and 2011 after the tragic death of Chevron oil worker Robert David Taylor....

“Earthquake threat to the Delta – with the Hayward Fault 45 miles away - is minimal, according to levee expert Dr. Bob Pyke, but the State Water Project and Central Valley Project cross right over some of the most dangerous faults in California from Coalinga south to LA. Large engineered projects are more vulnerable to earthquake then Delta levees," said Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director of Restore the Delta. Photo: Aerial view showing levee repair work at Mile 26.9 on the Sac...

Propaganda from the NRDC praises SNWA pipeline proponent General Manager Pat Mulroy for her brilliant plan to heist groundwater from under the Goshute Nation and deliver it to her developer friends like Mr. Harvey Whittemore, an early funder of the pipeline. In the process of depleting the aquifer an entire spring fed ecosystem with endemic spring snails will be destroyed, but hey, we need more suburban sprawl in the desert so Whittemore and Mulroy can have a nice retirement at all of our exp...

“We are very happy with the outcome of this long and challenging process,” said Foothill Conservancy President Katherine Evatt after the meeting. “We’re proud of our foothill communities for coming together to tell EBMUD “no” and to protect the Mokelumne River. We’re glad we filed the suit and saw it through. And we’re grateful to EBMUD for changing course."...