FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Brett Baker: 916-719-6586, Jane Wagner-Tyack: 209-642-5105 Restore the Delta 10100 Trinity Pkwy, Suite 120 Stockton, CA 95219 Email: Jane@restorethedelta.org RESTORE THE DELTA SAYS H.R. 1837 BENEFITS WESTSIDE VALLEY WATER USERS AT THE EXPENSE OF CALIFORNIA’S CITIZENS AND THE ENVIRONMENT Stockton, California — Recent massive fish kills at the water project pumps...Read More

Last week, after Deputy Secretary of the Department of Interior David Hayes, California Natural Resources Agency Secretary John Laird, and Ca Resources Under Secretary Jerry Meral made a show of listening to non-exporter perspectives at a public meeting on the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (see our 4/27 Special Edition), they had a REAL meeting with...Read More

We’re used to MWD and Westlands being dismissive of Delta communities. For another example of regional chauvinism, let us turn our attention in a direction we usually don’t consider: west, toward the Santa Clara Valley Water District, which was a member of the BDCP steering committee. On May 10, the SCVWD’s board will get its...Read More

Fifty-eight export contractors, water districts, utilities, business organizations, and farming representatives from outside the Delta have signed on to a letter to Delta Stewardship Council chair Phil Isenberg complaining about the DSC’s interpretation of “covered actions” under the Delta Reform Act. Says the letter, “[The] Council’s attempt to regulate actions outside the legal Delta exceeds...Read More

San Francisco Giants fans who listen to broadcasts on KNBR have been hearing commercials about the need for water infrastructure to prepare the state for the next drought. Click here to view Too bad Will Durst is using his good name to sell our Bay Area neighbors on a boondoggle project that’s bad for the...Read More