Below you will find a letter written to Senator Joe Simitian of the Senate Select Committee on Delta Conservation.  Zeke expresses perfectly why the report on flow criteria for the Delta approved last week by the State Water Resources Control Board is a document that should be used for making decision regarding future management of...Read More

On Monday, the Legislature voted to postpone the water bond to 2012, demonstrating once again that they are incapable of making decisions about water with calm deliberation and in the light of day. The Senate backed postponement from the outset, but the Assembly took several votes, with Jared Huffman arguing to keep the measure on...Read More

Let’s look at development in arid regions of the state. We really hate to quote the Public Policy Institute of California, creator of the Apocalypse vision of the Delta. But in a 2005 report, “Lawns and Water Demand in California,” the PPIC estimated that the amount of irrigated landscaping in California equaled the size of...Read More

While calling for smarter use of the water we have (a subject short-changed by the water bond), we need to keep pointing out the flawed implication in DWR’s oft-reported statement that two-third of Californians are served by water from the Delta. The suggestion, always, is that the well-being of a large percentage of Californians depends...Read More

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   CONTACT: Roger Salazar (916) 284-1255   No on Proposition 18: Despite Lack of Public Support, Legislature Delays Bad Water Bond Instead of Dumping it Altogether   Bond’s prospects just as poor in 2012 as it is in 2010 Sacramento, August 9 – Members of the No on Proposition 18 Coalition...Read More

Dear Friends, Call your legislator today: No on A.B. 1265! No water bond! We’ve just heard that the California Legislature is taking up a bill on Monday that would move Proposition 18, the $11 billion water bond, to the 2012 ballot. This is a huge mistake. The bond should be scrapped entirely, not postponed. Can...Read More

The No on 18 campaign today announced its opposition to A.B. 1265, a bill to postpone the $11billion water bond from this November’s ballot to 2012. “A vote for A.B. 1265 is a vote for the water bond,” said Jim Metropulos of the Sierra Club California. “Legislators should do what’s right for California and vote down...Read More

SAN FRANCISCO – Developers, agribusiness and construction interests would benefit from the water bond on this fall’s ballot, while public services—such as education and public health programs—could suffer, according to a new analysis from consumer organization Food & Water Watch. As California’s legislators return to Sacramento this week to decide the fate of Proposition 18,...Read More

The State Water Resources Control Board this week adopted the report on flow criteria that was required by last November’s SBX7 1 on Delta Governance and the Delta Plan. Based on the best available science, the report affirms what people in the Delta have known for decades: You can’t have a healthy Delta when you...Read More

Of more immediate interest to people in the Delta is the new Watermaster, Craig Wilson, who was introduced at this week’s Water Board hearing. The Watermaster position was created by the Delta Reform Act of 2009. According to the Water Board’s press release, “The Delta Watermaster will act with a high degree of independence within...Read More