NOTE: To watch/listen to hearings live, click here. We live tweeting the hearing @RestoretheDelta. SWRCB WQCP Stockton 12-16 – Curated tweets by RestoretheDelta   Join us at these hearing dates below to make your comments: * Note: The Hearing will go on for as long as people have public comments. It could stretch into the...Read More

In case you missed it! Mother Jones California Is About to Funnel Water to Farms—While Screwing the Ecosystems Around Them By JOSH HARKINSON December 9, 2016 Link at website A controversial bill that would override environmental rules to supply farmers with more water from California’s ecologically sensitive Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta sailed through the House...Read More

UPDATE 12/10: We are heartbroken at the passage of the Big Ag rider and the betrayal by Senator Dianne Feinstein. She and the SJ Valley Republican Congressional Members took advantage of what is a good bill for the rest of the United States, by slipping in a scheme to over pump the SF Bay-Delta estuary....Read More

REMINDER: Watch the hearing live today at this link, starting 9:15-9:00 a.m. For Immediate Release: Thursday, December 8, 2016 Contact: Brian Smith, 415-320-9384, brian@bpspr.com Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, 209-479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org   Restore the Delta Presents Case Against Delta Tunnels Permit to State Water Board   Sacramento – This morning, Restore the Delta (with legal support from Earthjustice)...Read More

For Immediate Release: 12/2/16 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta, (209) 479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org   DELTA TUNNELS Plan B Presented by Public Policy Institute of California   Stockton – This week a coalition of conservation and public interest organizations sent a letter to Obama administration officials calling for the termination of the proposed Delta Tunnels.  ...Read More

For Immediate Release: November 29, 2016 Contact: Robert Wright, Friends of the River, 916-442-3155 x207 bwright@friendsoftheriver.org Brian Smith, 415-320-9384, brian@bpspr.com   Obama Administration Asked to Kill Delta Tunnels Plan Financial and environmental “nightmare” would become his legacy   Sacramento, CA – On Monday, a coalition of California fishing, conservation, and public interest groups sent a...Read More

Excerpt: The tunnels represent a failure of imagination. The project looks backward, to an era when hard technology was installed across the state to transport water hundreds of miles, regardless of construction and energy costs and environmental impacts.Read More

For Immediate Release: 11/16/16 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org   San Diego Water Leader Questions Delta Tunnels Backers Why ignore region’s water sustainability projects?   Stockton, CA – Yesterday, San Diego County Water Authority’s General Manager, Maureen Stapleton, sent a letter to CA Natural Resources Secretary John Laird asserting that Dr. David Sunding’s economic analysis...Read More

Earlier this year, thousands of Restore the Delta supporters signed a petition urging the State Water Resources Control Board to update outdated water quality standards for the Bay-Delta region. Now we need your action in person!   This outdated 20-year-old Water Quality Control Plan allows more than half the water needed for the delta’s ecological...Read More

For Immediate Release: Monday, 11/14/16 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org   Governor Brown and President-Elect Trump Don’t undermine environmental laws to push Delta Tunnels   Stockton, CA – On November 10, Governor Jerry Brown offered his commitment to find “common ground wherever possible” with the incoming Trump Administration, but to oppose the new administration regarding...Read More