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Editorial: California drought calls for mandatory water cuts (Mercury News) 071121

Gov. Gavin Newsom is doing besides little too late to deal with California'south drought. The country and the Bay Area just experienced the driest rainy flavour ever, Gilt Gate Atmospheric condition Services reported last week. California received but 11.46 inches of pelting, a 126-year low that is less than one-half of the normal 23.61 inches. The Bay Expanse's rainfall was even worse. The region had merely nine.88 inches of rain this season, compared to its normal of 25.28 inches
See Interior's new water lawyer

A young, driven policy wonk on tribal water rights who repeatedly sued the Interior Section during the Trump years has joined the agency in the Biden administration.
Editorial: Newsom should kill plan to drain state reservoirs

On the tail end of the second dry winter in a row, with water near sure to be in brusk supply this summer, California h2o officials are evidently planning to largely drain the equivalent of the state's two largest reservoirs to satisfy the thirst of water-wasting farmers.
What's that digging in the Delta? (KCRA-Idiot box) xi/nineteen/2020

Forth the scenic Sacramento River, two worlds are in disharmonize. The start globe is comprised of farmers, making a living off the land. The other world is construction activity, with digging now underway in the Sacramento River Delta.
Who will lead Biden's EPA? (Farm Progress) xi/18/2020

Farm Futures blogger Gary Baise, an Illinois farmer and trial attorney at the police firm Olsson Frank Weeda Terman Matz PLC who served as the principal of staff to the first EPA administrator, previewed President-Elect Joe Biden'southward EPA review team in a recent column.
DWR discovers "bookkeeping error," reduces loan for Delta tunnel engineering design

In September 2020, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) signed an agreement to provide an additional $15 million to the Delta Conveyance Design and Construction Potency (DCA) for engineering design and field work in support of the Delta tunnel projection. DWR had previously loaned the DCA $33.8 million, bringing the full to $48.viii million.
ACWA Delivers Roadmap to Achieving VAs to Land Officials (ACWA)

ACWA on Oct. 15 submitted "A Roadmap To Achieving the Voluntary Agreements" to Gov. Gavin Newsom and peak members of his Administration that calls on the Country to have the necessary steps to re-engage on Voluntary Agreements (VAs) regarding the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta and its tributaries.
New $15.nine bil. Delta tunnel cost estimate (Valley Economic system) 08/24/20

As reported in the Sacramento Bee, the cost of a unmarried-tunnel Delta conveyance is now estimated at $xv.ix billion. In a previous 2018 analysis to support a short-lived proposal to stage the twin-tunnel WaterFix proposal, DWR estimated the single-tunnel 1st stage of WaterFix at $eleven.one billion in 2017 dollars, which is equivalent to $11.7 billion in 2020 dollars.
California Settles Fight Over Hoarded Dam H2o

Resolving an environmental lawsuit hatched during the state's contempo celebrated drought, California regulators on Tuesday promised new actions intended to ease the demise of endangered salmon populations.
H2o'due south Not the Result

As the coronavirus creeps through the human population, causing social and economic turmoil, farmers discard vast quantities of food that they are abruptly unable to sell in the upended economic system.
Delta Flows: California water during national crisis (Function ane)

How do nosotros talk about the vital piece of work that we exercise and what is happening in California water confronting the context of what is happening in America: a pandemic, a crisis in governance, and the exposure of systemic racism that led to the murder of George Floyd and likewise many Americans of color over the last 30 years?
EPA and Partners Denote Collaborative Implementation of the National Water Reuse Action Plan

Today, at an event at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) headquarters in Washington, D.C., EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, U.S. Department of the Interior Secretarial assistant David Bernhardt, and U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, and White House Council on Environmental Quality Chairman Mary B. Neumayr joined federal, land, tribal, local and h2o sector partners to announce the National Water Reuse Activeness Plan: Collaborative Implementation (Version 1).
Wednesday Top of the Scroll: Trump promised CA farmers water. But he can't overrule weather condition

Turns out President Donald Trump is no match for anotherCalifornia drought. Less than a calendar week subsequently Trump told SanJoaquin Valley farmers in Bakersfield that he was taking boldsteps to increase their water supply, his administrationannounced Tuesday farmers on the west side of the San JoaquinValley may only receive about 15 pct of their contractedwater supply for the upcoming growing flavour.
California h2o politics complicate Business firm panel's oversight

House Natural Resource Chairman Raúl M. Grijalva of Arizona wants his committee to give him subpoena say-so for multiple possible investigations, but California Democrat Jim Costa may vote confronting that as the panel considers whether Interior Secretary David Bernhardt improperly influenced a decision to send more than water to his district.
California to sue over federal rules governing water

California officials said Th they will sue the federal government over proposed rules managing the state's scarce water, arguing its conclusions are not scientifically adequate and autumn brusque of protecting species and the country's interests.
Shaping plans for single Delta tunnel

Every bit plans for a unmarried tunnel in the Delta take shape, a new commission has been created to inform planners of the Delta Conveyance Project'southward (DCP) expected impacts across a wide range of interests.
California Gov. Newsom must defend delta

Gov. Gavin Newsom hasn't flinched in fighting President Trump when it comes to loosening pollution rules in a smoggy country or punishing immigrants seeking protection.
A new approach for managing California's water and improving the environment

Water is at the centre of California'south economic and environmental health. The need to maintain reliable water supply for California's farms, families and cities while protecting the surround has been at the forefront of our minds as nosotros take worked to review and finalize a new operations program for the federal Central Valley Projection and the State Water Project.
The Dreamt State by Mark Arax: We're all complicit in California's water follies

Nosotros are all sinners. At least, that'south the impression Mark Arax leaves in The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Beyond California. What's bold, and distinguishes this volume from others nigh California, is that Arax grapples with a history that nosotros're still in the midst of creating, rather than reflecting on sins long past and easily put away equally the transgressions of others.
Bad News for the Bay-Delta Tomorrow: Trump Admin's New BiOps

On October 22 the Trump Administration is expected to release new Endangered Species Act permits, known as biological opinions, that are almost sure to significantly weaken and/or eliminate existing federal protections for salmon and other endangered species in California'southward Bay-Delta watershed.
'Extreme Weather condition' Focus of DWR Climate change Superlative

"Mother nature is changing fast, and we demand to change along with her," California Natural Resources Agency Secretary Wade Crowfoot told an audience of climate scientists, water managers, and other stakeholders at a climatic change conference on September 17 in Sacramento.
Voluntary Agreements on Delta flows have no real backstop

A September 19, 2019 Los Angeles Times Op Ed urged that Governor Gavin Newsom sign Senate Nib 1. I of the reasons given was that by affirming the Endangered Species Human action protections in the bill, Newsom would signal that standards for the Voluntary Agreements on Delta flows would be kept high:
State of California proposes programme for Delta levees

Final week, the Delta Stewardship Council (DSC) held a public hearing to review proposed changes to how spending decisions on the maintenance of Delta levees are made, and the plan — known as the Delta Levee Investment Strategy (DLIS) — has fatigued criticism from several sources.
August Delta Conveyance Update

The Department of H2o Resource (DWR) is continuing to work on the environmental planning and permitting to modernize Country Water Project infrastructure in the Delta.
What Does Groundwater Have to Practise with the Delta? A Lot. (Delta Stewardship Council) 07-25-19

California has a vast h2o supply not merely in its lakes, rivers, and estuaries, merely also undercover. For years, California's cities and farms have depended on this unseen resource, peculiarly in the southern office of the state where rainfall is depression, surface water is scarce, and need is loftier. In fact, underground aquifers provide most forty pct of California'southward h2o supply in a normal year and significantly more in dry out years.
California H2o Plan

The California Water Plan (Water Program) is the State's strategic plan for sustainably managing and developing h2o resource for current and time to come generations.
Trump Administration'south Common cold Water State of war With California Turns Hot (Legal Planet) 4-ix-nineteen

When it comes to California water policy, the federal-state relationship has always been both strained and challenging. That intergovernmental tension harkens back at least to the Reclamation Act of 1902. In department 8 of this iconic federal statute that transformed the American West, Congress declared that the federal government "shall proceed in conformity with" land water rights law.
Garamendi stops curt of supporting Newsom's modified Delta tunnels plans

Gov. Gavin Newsom'south proposal to downsize a controversial Delta waterway project is a step in the right management, only more progress needs to be made to satisfy critics who say fifty-fifty the modified proposal does more than impairment than good, Rep. John Garamendi – whose district includes communities that would be affected by the project – said in a broad-ranging interview Wednesday with the Daily Republic.
Gov. Newsom must mop upwards Brown'southward water mess (Sacramento Bee) 2/5/nineteen

Despite many high priority bug on his plate, i of Gov. Gavin Newsom's outset tests will be how he deals with California'due south h2o challenges and opportunities. Unfortunately, in the last days of his term Gov. Jerry Brown fabricated a bad bargain with the Trump administration and special interests. Information technology'due south yet another mess for the new governor to mop up.