If you read the various PPIC reports and the DRMS Phase One report and wondered what unrecognizable place they described, you will be happy to see the Delta Protection Commission’s “Economic Sustainability Plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta,” just released in a first administrative draft. Portions of the “Economic Sustainability Plan” are still under development. ...Read More

We reported recently on a new study by California Water Research Associates showing that 100,000 acres of land retired by Westlands Water District is not going to come back into irrigated production, no matter HOW much water Westlands gets. New evidence of this is contained in the district’s agricultural lease. Westlands owns essentially all of...Read More