Bay Area Utilities rip water report
Nearly 4 million people in the Bay Area draw their drinking water from two rivers upstream of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. But the question of how much delta water is drawn has pitted two of...
View ArticleDelta plan blasted over omissions by U.S. panel
A widely watched plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta that purports to both revive collapsing fish species and ensure stable water supplies instead reads as a crude justification for a...
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Fees and Anger Rise in California Water War
SAN DIEGO — There are accusations of conspiracies, illegal secret meetings and double-dealing. Embarrassing documents and e-mails have been posted on an official Web site emblazoned with the words...
View ArticleCalifornia Water Measure Yanked from Ballot – $11 billion
Sacramento – A massive $11 billion bond intended to pay for what lawmakers in 2009 said was a crucial upgrade of California’s water infrastructure has been pulled from the November ballot and delayed...
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Tea Party Blocks Compromise Pact to Restore Klamath River
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Almost since the Bureau of Reclamation first began plumbing the Klamath River in 1906, creating a vast and fertile farming region out of arid southeastern Oregon and northeastern...
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California Envisions Fix to Water Distribution
COURTLAND, Calif. — Flanked by the interior secretary and a federal environmental watchdog, Gov. Jerry Brown unveiled his plan to reconfigure the state’s oversubscribed water distribution system in...
View ArticleIn Drought, Calif. Water War Fought Underground
For decades, this city in California’s agricultural heartland relied exclusively on cheap, plentiful groundwater and pumped increasingly larger amounts from an aquifer as its population grew. But...
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Delta tunnels plan’s true price tag: As much as $67 billion
For more than a year, Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration has been describing his plan to build two massive water tunnels through the Delta as a $25 billion project. That would rank it as one of the...
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Desperately Dry California Tries to Curb Private Drilling for Water
FRESNO, Calif. — The small prefab office of Arthur & Orum, a well-drilling outfit hidden in the almond trees and grapevines south of Fresno, has become a magnet for scores of California farmers in...
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