For decades, Anti-California sentiment has been part of American media news coverage, which sadly too often measures state success only in terms of corporate success. The trope, “what is wrong with California,” does not evaluate the societal, environmental, and economic outcomes that would improve the quality of life for working people within our state. It...Read More

by Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla (with the help of friends) Last week, while our staff was away on leave, vacation, sick time, and other assorted in-Delta activities, DWR held a fisheries workshop on operations of the proposed Delta Conveyance Project. Colleagues from various organizations took an array of notes and shared the following with us. We are...Read More

For Immediate Release: 8/5/21 Contact: Tim Stroshane, Restore the Delta, 510-847-7556, spillwayguy@gmail.com SACRAMENTO – On August 3rd, Restore the Delta signed on to an environmental water coalition letter to all 120 state legislators—40 in the state senate, and 80 in the assembly—opposing Governor Gavin Newsom’s requests for nearly half a billion dollars in funding to the state budget for...Read More

SACRAMENTO (August 3, 2021) - Tonight the State Water Resources Control Board adopted emergency regulations that will authorize water diversion curtailment orders for the Bay-Delta watershed—reaching from near to the Oregon border to Mendota and Fresno area along the San Joaquin River.Read More

For Immediate Release: July 28, 2021Contact: Mariah Looney, (209) 851-0270, mariah@restorethedelta.org STOCKTON, CA – As reported by California State Water Resources Control Board staff, as of 7/27/21, there are more than two dozen outbreaks of harmful algal blooms (HABs) presently in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.   Most of these reported levels of cyanobacteria range between “cautionary” to “dangerous.” The...Read More

 – Barbara Barrigan-ParrillaWe have heard that voluntary agreement talks to set new flow standards for the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary have resumed. Apparently, there is a push to cut a deal by mid-August so that related project money could work its way into next year’s state budget.We have heard that not much has changed in the...Read More

For Immediate Release: 7/8/21Contact:Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.orgStockton, CA – Today, Governor Newsom asked Californians to voluntarily cut how much water they use by 15%.Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director, Restore the Delta response:“Governor Newsom’s response to the drought is too little too late. Restore the Delta and our coalition partners began warning state agencies and the Newsom Administration at the end...Read More

For Immediate Release: 6/29/21Contact:Tim Stroshane, Restore the Delta 510-847-7556, spillwayguy@gmail.com STOCKTON, CA – A coalition of Delta-based groups has sent a formal Petition for Reconsideration to the State Water Board opposing the Board’s June 1 order to relax water quality standards for Delta operations of the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project. The Temporary Urgency Change Order...Read More

Dear friends,Our Living Delta is a summer campaign to help Restore the Delta fully recover from Covid business conditions so that we can continue with the immediate and necessary work of protecting the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary during extreme drought conditions. We hope that you can support this campaign with a contribution, and if you have...Read More

After a bitter fight, Southern California’s water kingpin has a new leader – Los Angeles Times 6/9/21The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California has hired Adel Hagekhalil as its next general manager, following a bitter power struggle over the future of an agency that delivers hundreds of billions of gallons each year from the Colorado River...Read More