On the afternoon of March 20, while the Water Board and BDCP were holding meetings at which the concerns of Delta residents were being spectacularly ignored, the California Water Commission was hearing from DWR about why they should consider and, presumably, adopt an amendment to the Resolutions of Necessity underlying the pending eminent domain actions...Read More

Corresponding with release of the first chapters of the BDCP administrative draft, the Department of Water Resources has released a video “describing the ecological and economic importance of the Delta and the basic elements of the BDCP.”  (The video is posted on DWR’s  spotlight archive. ) DWR put together this 10-minute video and managed to...Read More

On March 20, Richard Stapler, Deputy Director of Communications for the California Natural Resources Agency, blogged on March 20 that hydraulic fracturing for oil extraction (fracking) in California uses just 8 acre feet of water per year.  Seems they checked a random sample of 30 hydraulically fractured wells, averaged the amount of water used by...Read More

The Delta has just lost two people who valued it and worked to help others appreciate it’s importance. Filmmaker Bruce Tokars reached millions of Californians with his videos for Salmon Water Now.   Bruce was relentless in his efforts to show how the greed and corruption of a wealthy few are damaging the Delta, Estuary, and...Read More

In case you missed today’s KQED Forum segment… Controversy Over Newest Delta Plan Proposal CLICK HERE TO LISTEN. This week, Governor Jerry Brown’s office released further details of its plan to build twin tunnels to pump water from Northern California to cities and farms in other parts of the state. Brown says the $23 billion...Read More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (CLICK HERE FOR PDF)  Youth in San Francisco and the Delta to Explore Water Conservation Issues During National Geographic Photo Camp SAN FRANCISCO (March 29, 2013)-From April 4 to 7, a group of 20 students from San Francisco and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta region of California will use photography to document their...Read More

Latest BDCP Effects Analysis Nothing More than a Rationale for a Conveyance Peripheral Tunnel Incompatible with Restoring Delta SACRAMENTO, CA – Restore the Delta (RTD), a coalition opposed to the Brown Administration’s rush to construct massive Peripheral Tunnels to take millions of acre-feet of water from the Delta, today said the revised BDCP proposal for...Read More

April 4th will be a key meeting in the series of BDCP meetings this year.  Please join us for a pre-meeting warm up at 11:30 p.m. outside the meeting site.  Be prepared with questions regarding the project – pack your lunch – and be prepared to make your presence known. April 4, 2013 – A...Read More

California voters, lawmakers have no say in OK of major river diversion plan mweiser@sacbee.com PUBLISHED SUNDAY, MAR. 24, 2013 It may be the most ambitious habitat restoration project ever conceived in the United States. The Bay Delta Conservation Plan proposes to restore one of every five acres in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, breaching levees on...Read More

Another View: Delta tunnel project truly can drain north state Special to The Bee By Jane Wagner-Tyack  PUBLISHED SUNDAY, MAR. 24, 2013  Click here to read online.  In Stuart Leavenworth’s “Scope and impact of Delta twin tunnels is starting to hit home” (Forum, March 17), we were happy to see his growing concern regarding the...Read More