The Department of Water Resources (DWR), created by the legislature during a special session in 1956, and the State Water Project (SWP), authorized by the Burns-Porter Act in 1959, have been closely linked almost from their inceptions. In 1957, DWR published the first California Water Plan, Bulletin No. 3, the last of three bulletins presenting...Read More
Sponsors of the “meeting amenities” for the Plenary were consulting firms MWH, RMC, CH2M Hill, and Edelman. When the government doesn’t have tax money to pay for this kind of policy process, private entities come in to fill the breach. Special thanks went to the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) for their significant...Read More
Case in point: the Kern Water Bank. The California Farm Water Coalition has taken issue with our statement in our last newsletter that the Kern Water Bank was developed with state money and taxpayer approved bonds. “The Kern Water Bank property,” they say, “was originally acquired by the California Department of Water Resources through the...Read More
Fitch Ratings, which rates bonds, has assigned a rating of AA- to Westlands Water District (WWD). Some interesting comments (with emphasis added) from the Fitch analysis: “WWD’s future capital needs continue to be focused on obtaining additional water entitlements and to firm up delivery of existing entitlements. Capital improvements in the district have averaged just...Read More
Thanks to Dan Odenweller of St. Anne’s Episcopal Church in Stockton for showing Over Troubled Waters at the church this past weekend. Viewers there were interested in the use of surplus water to grow permanent crops and in the ensuing pressure for water. We’re delighted to have people show the film and will be happy...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546 steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; @RestoretheDelta In case you missed it… Barbara Barrigan-Parilla and Robert Pyke: Yo Gov. Brown–fixing Delta levees IS feasible By Barbara Barrigan-Parilla and Robert Pyke Special to the Mercury News Published 09/21/2012 Click here to read online...Read More
