Editorial: Biden offers California a clear, clean water strategy (Mercury News 4/27/21)California’s continuing failure to adopt a comprehensive water strategy is exacerbating its looming drought crisis.For nearly two decades, the state has put its focus on dam projects and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta tunnel fiasco. The primary aim is creating new ways of diverting additional...Read More
– Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director, Restore the DeltaLast week, an important workshop took place at the State Water Resources Control Board about dam operations and how water temperatures would be controlled with water releases for Sacramento River salmon during this year’s drought conditions.Today, at the beginning of a significant drought, we are holding less water...Read More
RTD note: Little Manila Rising was part of the Stockton Environmental Justice initiative. They have become leaders on air quality in the Delta. We are so very happy to share this national story on their behalf. How computer mapping could help Biden find and fix polluted neighborhoods – Reuters (w/video) 4/13/21Diagnosed with asthma at 8 years old, Karlaine Francisco...Read More
Today’s blog breaks my heart. Why? Because Restore the Delta is focused on water quality issues, flood control issues, future planning, and training the next generation of local water experts – for that is where hope exists. We are focused on the future because in some ways we have become very cynical about any positive meaningful change...Read More
Restore the Delta – Calendar Announcements1. Attention San Joaquin County Middle School, High School, and College Students and Teachers! The 5TH ANNUAL H2O HACKATHON will take place on April 17th, 2021.2. Our Living Delta: An Online Benefit for Restore the Delta Friday will be May 21st at 6:30 pm. (Details soon!) The Dam Problem for the Bay-Delta...Read More
New priorities needed for California’s next drought – Darius Waiters (Restore the Delta) and Brandon Dawson (Sierra Club), CalMatters 3/25/21A series of key decisions await Gov. Gavin Newsom as the state heads back into a potential drought.So this seems like the right moment to review what happened last time: Water was prioritized for big agriculture at...Read More
Meet the Climate Water Advocate TeamWe are pleased to introduce to our members the full Climate Water Advocacy Team now working with Restore the Delta. These young leaders, who are undergoing a six-month training course on the Delta and California water management, are reading and responding to government processes, sharing their work with others on...Read More
Hello Restore the Delta Advocates!We just wanted to share with you a very impressive coalition letter that brought together some of the best thinking from Stockton’s activists. On Tuesday March 16, 2021 Restore the Delta submitted our “Stockton Coalition Comments on Delta Adapts Vulnerability Assessment” to the Delta Stewardship Council. The goal of the Delta Adapts Draft Vulnerability...Read More
Editorial: Sexual misconduct at the Metropolitan Water District hints at deeper problems – 3/8/21…Environmentalists and people living and working in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta bristle at disrespect exhibited at MWD board meetings and in negotiations over projects such as the proposed tunnel to bring Sacramento River water around, rather than through, the delta on its journey south....Read More
Immediate Delta Threat By: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla Because the Delta tunnel project has been such a long, all-consuming process/fight/project/challenge, we find that for many of our followers there is reduced bandwidth to engage with serious scenarios facing the Delta that need at times more of our attention than the tunnel. (The first round of many environmental...Read More
