Couldn’t watch Our Living Delta live on Friday?No worries – You can watch our summer campaign kick-off above and donate here!Auction items are still available to bid on until Tuesday 6/8 at 12pm. Check them out here. Dear friends, Our Living Delta is a summer campaign to help Restore the Delta fully recover from Covid business conditions so that...Read More
For Immediate Release: June 4, 2021Contact:Tim Stroshane, Restore the Delta, 510-847-7556Tom Stokely, Save California Salmon, 530-524-0315Matt Holmes, Little Manila, 415-254-3546 Sacramento – Today, a coalition of environmental, fishing, and social justice organizations sent to state and federal water officials a formal protest against the proposed “Temporary Urgency Change Petition” (TUCP) submitted by the California Department...Read More
For Immediate Release: June 1, 2021 Contact:Caty Wagner, Sierra Club, 203-988-3584Conner Everts, Southern California Watershed Alliance, 310-804-6615 Los Angeles – Western Tribes, water, climate, and social justice groups are praising the Southern California Metropolitan Water District (MWD) Board of Directors’ choice of Mr. Adel Hagekhalil to be the next general manager of the state’s largest and most...Read More
What a week, and it’s just started.We awoke Monday to the pleasurable sounds of the general manager of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) Jeffrey Kightlinger’s swan song interview with the Water Education Foundation. After 15 years in charge of an arrogant boys club with many issues, Kightlinger is stepping down. Takeaway? We outlasted him! On...Read More
Our annual fundraiser looks a little different this year, but we want to include our members in the live show.We’re asking for 30-second videos from you answering the following questions: Why do you follow Restore the Delta?What the Delta mean to you?What do you want for the Delta’s future? Not a tech expert? No problem!...Read More
– Tim Stroshane and Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla On May 10, 2021, Governor Newsom expanded his drought emergency declaration to 39 additional counties, now 41 in all. His latest declaration tears pages from the playbook Governor Brown used in 2013 and 2014. There will be at least one, and perhaps more, salinity barriers in the Delta to be installed by the...Read More
COLUMNS AND OPINIONSNo, California isn’t ‘flushing water to the ocean,’ despite what Fresno politicians say – Fresno Bee 5/7/21I’m guessing that’s not news to most folks. What they may not understand about the Delta — and certainly won’t be told by Fresno-area politicians bent on keeping the narrative simple — is the vital role it serves...Read More
One of the essential roles Restore the Delta plays is to constantly counter the lies and media stunts used by Big Ag to hoard water needed by all Californians and our environment.Here’s a perfect example from last week…No, California isn’t ‘flushing water to the ocean,’ despite what Fresno politicians say – Fresno Bee 5/7/21…For an alternative...Read More
Public Health Crisis Looms as California Identifies 600 Communities at Risk of Water-System Failures– The Revelator 5/5/21More than 300 communities have chronically unsafe drinking water containing contaminants that can come with serious health consequences, including cancer. The areas hardest hit are mostly small, agricultural communities in the San Joaquin and Salinas valleys, which are predominantly...Read More
Op-Ed: Newsom promises while the delta dies – Los Angeles Times 4/29/21The West Coast’s most important estuary is dying, and Gov. Gavin Newsom has hastened its demise.As he took office two years ago, Newsom promised to generate voluntary agreements among farmers, environmentalists and government officials on the rules for allocating water that flows through the Sacramento-San Joaquin...Read More
