In case you missed it…  A raid on Delta Islands San Francisco Chronicle: Read article at SF Chronicle’s website. March 9, 2016 Updated: March 9, 2016 4:27pm If it’s not a water grab, it comes close. That’s one way to view a move by Southern California’s largest water district to buy a handful of Sacramento Delta...Read More

For Immediate Release: March 9, 2016 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org Stockton, CA – The federal Securities and Exchange Commission charged California’s largest agricultural water district today with misleading investors about its financial condition as it issued a $77 million bond offering, with one of its managers bragging about using “a little Enron accounting.”    California’s largest...Read More

For Immediate Release: March 8, 2016 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org Stockton, CA – At a closed session board meeting this morning, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California authorized the purchase of four islands in the San Francisco Bay-Delta for an undisclosed sum. The deal is highly controversial in Northern California as it would...Read More

In Case You Missed It – 3/7/2016 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org   The Delta Tunnels "Tracking" Website Misleads Public About Water Yields Valley Economy – March 3, 2016 Dr. Jeffrey Michael, Director of the Center for Business and Policy Research and Associate Professor, Eberhardt School of Business, University of the Pacific In January, the...Read More

For Immediate Release: 3/3/2016 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org As California Water Infrastructure Crumbles, Water Districts Consider Wasting $1.2 Billion on the Delta Tunnels Advocates Say “Fix LA and Santa Clara First!” Stockton, CA – Opponents of the Delta Tunnels today questioned the wisdom of state water districts investing another $1.2 billion in the plan...Read More

Our media release for today and, in case you missed it, two great op-eds in the Contra Costa Times and the Sacramento Bee, one by Contra Costa County Supervisor Mary N. Piepho and the other by Raul Grijalva calling out latino front groups by Westlands Water District. For Immediate Release: Feb 9, 2016 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta...Read More

For Immediate Release: 2/8/2016 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director, Restore the Delta 209-479-2053 Bill Jennings, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, 209-938-9053 Pro-Delta Tunnels Group Bars Journalist from Media Teleconference Veteran fisheries reporter Dan Bacher asked to media event, then denied access Sacramento – Daniel Bacher, a veteran Northern California journalist specializing in fisheries, received a media...Read More

In case you missed it… Los Angeles Times Op-Ed Can the Sacramento Delta survive more 'regulatory flexibility'? By Doug Obegi  Published: February 3, 2016 Original article at LA Times. The state and federal Endangered Species Acts were created to prevent the extinction of our native fish and wildlife, and they've been tremendously successful. Yet despite...Read More

In case you missed it… The San Francisco Chronicle Delta tunnel troubles Published: January 30, 2016 Original article at SF Chronicle. Gov. Jerry Brown wants to spend $3.6 million to incorporate his goal to build 40-foot-wide, twin 35-mile-long delta tunnels into state planning. In the scheme of a proposed $17 billion (and probably more costly)...Read More

In case you missed it…    California starts decisive year on governor's water tunnels – Associated Press, read here. Excerpt: Brown and big Central and Southern California water agencies are the tunnels' biggest advocates, while many Northern and Central California cities, towns and counties, and environmental and fishing groups oppose them. Supporters and opponents chiefly...Read More