Delta talks going on behind closed doors Contra Costa Times By Mike Taugher September 7, 2010 After three years of intense talks aimed at solving California's water problems, key people have quiet...

Chase for the king: Salmon fishermen return to Delta The Stockton Record By Alex Breitler September 3, 2010 There is a whiskered catfish, a spiny sturgeon and a gaping largemouth bass mounted on t...

Two-Gates resolution approved Capital Press By Wes Sander August 26, 2010 The Legislature has passed a resolution urging the federal government to prioritize its study of a project that could prot...

Court upholds protections for Calif wild steelhead Mercury News The Associated Press August 20, 2010 A federal appeals court has upheld protections for wild steelhead trout in California rivers, r...

Elite science panel wades into Calif. water war NY Times By Colin Sullivan August 2, 2010 Scientists tasked with unraveling one of the nation's most vexing environmental puzzles started their firs...

Previous money unspent as leaders urge new bond The San Francisco Chronicle By Wyatt Buchanan August 1, 2010 As California grapples with chronic and massive debt, state leaders are pushing voters ...

Delta predators The California Report July 30, 2010 The water rights battle in the Sacramento Delta is intensifying. Farmers are trying to prove that the state's massive water pumps aren't the onl...

Delta tops list of endangered waterways News Review By Hugh Biggar July 22, 2010 Get your boats and rafts ready. The Sacramento-San Joaquin river system is one of the most vulnerable to extreme f...

Californians should use less delta water, report says Los Angeles Times By Bettina Boxall July 21, 2010 Californians need to take significantly less water from the state's single largest supply, a...

CCWD begins operating new Delta pumping station Contra Costa Times By Sam Sutton July 20, 2010 With one flip of a giant switch, a project to produce more fresh water in the Delta kicked into gear ...

Scientists might miss the boat on plans for Delta canal The Stockton Record By Alex Breitler July 14, 2010 A prestigious team of scientists on Tuesday began learning about a plan to build a periph...

Drills to test idea of Delta tunnel Stockton Record By Alex Breitler July 12, 2010 The Delta will be poked and prodded again starting next month, as the state drills hundreds of holes into river b...

What's next for the water bond? The Fresno Bee By Dan Walters July 5, 2010 It appears certain that the $11.1 billion water bond, the centerpiece of a historic water policy agreement championed by ...

Water bond to be pulled from November ballot Sacramento Bee By E.J. Schultz June 30, 2010 Faced with potential defeat of one of his top priorities, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called Tuesday for de...

Calif increases water allotment after storms The Sacramento Bee June 23, 2010 California officials plan to increase the amount of water they supply to farms and cities after a series of late sprin...

16.5M baby salmon released into Calif. waterways Associated Press June 21, 2010 Millions of baby salmon have been released into Northern California waterways to help the struggling fish recover fr...

Bill seeks to strike clause from water bond The San Francisco Chronicle By Wyatt Buchanan June 19, 2010 Lawmakers backing November's $11 billion water bond proposition are seeking to strike a prov...

Striped bass: Delta villains? Contra Costa Times By Mike Taugher June 15, 2010 It was 1879 when a Harvard-educated fish scientist took striped bass caught in New Jersey's Navesink River and poured...

San Joaquin Valley water allocation boosted again The Sacramento Bee By Michael Doyle June 15, 2010 Interior Department officials on Monday again boosted their planned irrigation water deliveries ...

Recycled water systems ripple out in Bay Area The San Francisco Chronicle By Kelly Zito June 14, 2010 The "whoosh" of the toilet at the new Rite Aid in north San Rafael sounds like any other. Bu...

This time, will we end the water war? The San Francisco Chronicle By Matt Jenkins June 13, 2010 In the grand Western tradition of fistfights down at the water hole, no fight has quite rivaled the ...

Task force announces strategies to integrate BDCP BiOp U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service June 9, 2010 A special joint agency task force today announced a near-term science strategy to support the impl...

Report finds delta among most vulnerable rivers The San Francisco Chronicle By Kelly Zito June 2, 2010 The river system that makes up the backbone of the state's economy ranks as one of the most i...

Legislature rejects study of peripheral canal alternative Stockton Record By Alex Breitler May 31, 2010 The Legislature will not consider the latest alternative to a peripheral canal: a proposal t...

Extra pumping starts in Delta a day after court ruling The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser May 27, 2010 Cities and farmers quickly started pulling more water from the Delta following a controversial...

Fresno judge lifts delta pumping restrictions The Fresno Bee By John Ellis May. 26, 2010 A federal judge in Fresno on Tuesday temporarily lifted Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta pumping restrictions d...

Innovation will help to meet Central Valley water needs California Farm Bureau Federation By Donald R. Glaser May 26, 2010 The three-year drought has delivered a clear message to the Bureau of Rec...

Scientist forced to resign from Delta pollution panel Daily Democrat By Mike Taugher May 23, 2010 A University of Maryland scientist who published a paper this week concluding that ammonium-laden ...

California Delta faces many issues Fontana Herald News By Alejandro Cano May 20, 2010 It has been said that the water dinosaurs drank millions of years ago is the same water that falls in the form...

Studies link Sacramento sewage to Delta fish decline The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser May. 18, 2010 Two new studies point to Sacramento's wastewater as the culprit behind declining fish populatio...

Salmon smolts trucked from Anderson to Bay The Record Searchlight By Dylan Darling May 17, 2010 ANDERSON Problems with an aeration system forced one of four trucks hauling young salmon from a nort...

Decline of endangered delta smelt, nutrient pollution Physorg May 17, 2010 "While a great deal of emphasis has been placed on ensuring there is enough water for delta smelt, we also need to recogn...

Voter anger could doom $11 billion water bond Daily Bulletin By Rebecca Kimitch May 16, 2010 Although Rep. Grace Napolitano supports an $11 billion bond intended to remedy the state's water woes, ...

Opaque transparency The Stockton Record May 5, 2010 A Colorado construction consulting firm has been awarded a multiyear, multimillion-dollar contract to write a comprehensive plan for the Sacrame...

New U.S. panel aims to unify smelt, salmon protection Sacramento Bee By Michael Doyle May 4, 2010 The Obama administration on Monday set up a new task force to wrangle California water decisions, ...

Can California finally solve Delta crisis? Contra Costa Times By Tom Barnidge April 30, 2010 STOP US if you've heard this one before: California has a water problem. Demand keeps growing, supply...

The baby salmon feeding frenzy in San Pablo Bay East Bay Express By Alastair Bland April 28, 2010 Tanker trucks loaded with thousands of baby chinook salmon arrive each week to the shores of San P...

Calif. lawmakers reject hurdle for delta canal Mercury News By Samantha Young April 27, 2010 California lawmakers on Tuesday rejected a bill that would have required the Legislature to approve or ...

Calif. boosts water deliveries to cities, farms The Sacramento Bee April 23, 2010 State water managers are increasing deliveries to California's cities and farms, saying recent storms have boosted...

Can California fix the Delta before disaster strikes? UC Berkeley News By Sarah Yang April 20, 2010 When visiting Sherman Island in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, it is easy to forget the...

Central Valley fish might be declared endangered Central Valley Business Times April 19, 2010 The status of the Sacramento splittail fish is soon to be determined and that decision could impact wa...

Water bond needed to save delta The San Francisco Chronicle By Graham Chisholm, Mike Sweeney April 16, 2010 The abundance of natural beauty and wildlife is stunning in the Sacramento-San Joaquin D...

Central Valley Project increases water allocations Central Valley Business Times April 15, 2010 The federal Central Valley Project will increase water deliveries to its customers, thanks to a wint...

Saving the salmon fishing industry Santa Cruz Sentinel By Zeke Grader April 11, 2010 For two years, sport and commercial fishermen along 1,000 miles of coastline in California and Oregon have been...

Valley water agencies await fish ruling The Fresno Bee By John Ellis April 7, 2010 Water agencies representing millions of Californians made a final pitch Wednesday in their effort to derail feder...

Water supply up, but pumps shut down Western Farm Press April 5, 2010 With the Sierra snowpack's water content above average, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) has increased its S...

Delta smelt move closer to being ‘endangered' CVBT April 2, 2010 The Delta smelt, a minnow-like fish that lives only in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, but is often in courtrooms, could be lis...

Delta council faces critics, scrutiny Stockton Record By Alex Breitler April 2, 2010 A new council to oversee the Delta began its first meeting Thursday with no gavel - symbolizing critics' claim ...

Judge to farmers: water restrictions stay KGET News April 1, 2010 A federal judge in Fresno turned down an emergency request by farmers to lift water pumping restrictions in the Delta River. The...

Federal ruling slows Delta pumping The Fresno Bee By John Ellis March 31, 2010 Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta pumps will be ratcheted back today after a federal judge in Fresno rejected a request to...

Bill aims to take bass out of Delta Stockton Record By Peter Ottesen March 31, 2010 Striped bass have become targets, not of sport anglers who enjoy catching them, but of Delta water exporters who...

Full story of Delta stressors yet to be revealed Fresno Bee March 28, 2010 The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is a crucial part of California's complicated and crumbling water system. But instead of...

Hearings could set new course for Delta Contra Costa Times By Mike Taugher March 19, 2010 Hearings beginning today are one of the first steps to be taken under sweeping water reform laws meant to ...

As pros leave, Delta's focus turns to another bass The Stockton Record By Alex Breitler March 15, 2010 The great thing about the Delta, they say, is you don't need a $50,000 boat and thousands of ...

The war on salmon The San Francisco Chronicle by Cynthia Koehler and Barry Nelson February 14, 2010 California is at war with its native salmon. Historically, hundreds of thousands - some estimate...

Bassmaster Elite Series opens in California Los Angeles Times March 11, 2010 Top Bassmaster anglers will be visiting California for the first two stops of the Bassmaster Elite Series, featuring to...

Delta oversight panel already being undermined Stockton Record By Alex Breitler March 10, 2010 Appointments to a new council overseeing the Delta are coming "very, very soon," the Schwarzenegger ...

Water allocations bring frustration as reservoirs rise California Farm Bureau Federation By Kate Campbell March 3, 2010 The much anticipated water allocation announcements from federal and state w...

Scarce water has local farmers squaring off The Modesto Bee By John Holland March 2, 2010 Northwest of Manteca, where salmon struggle to survive in the San Joaquin River, farmers face challenges o...

Quickest way to save salmon: Limit their predators Modesto Bee By Allen Short March 2, 2010 "One fish. Two fish...Some are red. And some are blue. Some are old. And some are new. Some are sad. And...

Delta residents told to ready for water war Central Valley Business Times March 2, 2010 Residents of the Discovery Bay area of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta were warned Monday night that powerf...

Striped bass to blame for California's salmon decline The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser February 27, 2010 Some fish do the eating and others get eaten. That is the nature of nature. But if man ...

Central Valley Project increases water allocations Central Valley Business Times February 26, 2010 The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation says it plans to deliver 30 percent of water allocations for agric...

Quick action by new Delta group The Stockton Record By Alex Breitler February 26, 2010 A leaner, locally leaning Delta Protection Commission made its debut Thursday night by refusing a request by...

Water package for San Joaquin Valley to be unvailed The Sacramento Bee By Michael Doyle and Mark Grossi February 26, 2010 The Obama administration is expected today to unveil an ambitious-soundin...

Despite predictions, state farm jobs aren't disappearing The Los Angeles Times By Bettina Boxall February 22, 2010 When California Sen. Dianne Feinstein drafted legislation that would weaken endan...

Feinstein water transfer bill would hurt salmon The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser February 21, 2010 Sen. Dianne Feinstein has proposed legislation to make it easier to transfer water to San Joaqui...

Delta water compromise will save jobs The Sacromento Bee By Dianne Feinstein February 20, 2010 Re "Feinstein's play threatens to roil the water world" (Editorial, Feb. 14): Given the magnitude of ...

Bill aims to add flexibility to rules on fish protection California Farm Bureau Federation By Kate Campbell February 17, 2010 In a move aimed at increasing the amount of water going to storage fro...

Lowest Delta-rivers salmon run ever in 2009 The San Francisco Chronicle By Peter Fimrite February 13, 2010 The lowest number of chinook salmon in recorded history made their way up the Sacramento ...

Tunnel emerges as favored way to deliver water The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser February 11, 2010 A giant tunnel now is the primary concept for delivering water from the Sacramento River to the ...

Feds reduce Calif. water pumping to protect fish Mercury News February 9, 2010 The federal government said Tuesday it will reduce pumping in the delta this week because a threatened fish could be ...

Water commission wary of Delta plan Chico Enterprise-Record By Heather Hacking February 8, 2010 A conservation plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, including plans for a system of tunnels an...

Delta water quality continues to decline Mountain Democrat By Roberta Long February 2, 2010 The California Delta, where the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers merge with the San Francisco Bay, look...

Judge hears arguments in case over Calif. salmon Mercury News February 2, 2010 A federal judge is weighing whether to relax pumping limits that are in place to protect salmon as they migrate throu...

Water agencies head to court to ask for relief Contra Costa Times By Mike Taugher February 1, 2010 The state's biggest water players are asking a judge today to ease new Delta pumping limits that...

Sacramento splittail gets a fresh chance at survival Environment News Service January 26, 2010 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to revisit the politically twisted 2003 Bush administra...

Feds to reconsider protections for Delta fish The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser January 25, 2010 Federal wildlife officials have agreed to reconsider an imperiled Delta fish species for Endangere...

National science panel convenes on Calif. delta San Francisco Chronicle By Samantha Young January 24, 2010 An expert in California's delta told a panel of the National Academies of Sciences on Sun...

New Calif. water policy aims to save state's key estuary Los Angeles Times By Samantha Young January 19, 2010 It was just five years ago that fishing guide Bob Sparre had all the salmon he could h...

Project to place fish-saving gates in Delta stalls The Oakland Tribune January 14, 2010 A plan to place two removable gates in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to keep threatened fish from getting...

Delta landowners fired up over water KCRA News January 8, 2010 Landowners in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta are telling California "no trespassing" on their land and are refusing to allow ...

More salmon smolts will be trucked from north The Record Searchlight By Dylan Darling January 8, 2010 Salmon will again be heading out on the highway this spring to travel from a north state hatch...

Team to tackle Delta water needs The Stockton Record By Alex Breitler January 7, 2010 The question seems obvious enough: How much water does the Delta ecosystem need to survive? There's never be...

2009 another bad year for Delta ecosystem Contra Costa Times By Mike Taugher January 6, 2010 The latest survey of Delta fish populations shows another ominous dip. Despite ramped-up regulations...

2010 could be disappointing for salmon fishing KGO News January 4, 2010 The year 2010 is shaping up to be another disappointing year for commercial salmon fishing on the west coast. The 2009 Fa...

Obama calls for delay in 2-Gates project ThePress.net By Ruth Roberts December 30, 2009 Opponents of the proposed Delta 2-Gates project won the battle if not the war last week when the Obama admin...

Federal plan to ease water crisis in California Bay-Delta Environment News Service December 22, 2009 To address the water crisis in California, the Obama administration today released a coordinate...

National Academy of Sciences studying Delta The Stockton Record December 18, 2009 The National Academy of Sciences - a kind of "Supreme Court" for scientists - said Thursday it has started a two-y...

Pumping depletes Central Valley water, data show The San Francisco Chronicle By Kelly Zito December 15, 2009 Drought, curtailed water exports from the delta and overzealous well pumping during the...

California's sinking Delta The Christian Science Monitor By Douglas Fox December 2, 2009 Dennis Baldocchi often drives past the ruins of his grandmother's house on Sherman Island, in northern Cali...

Delta residents vow to plug Delta damming plans Central Valley Business Times November 24, 2009 That giant sucking sound just might be Los Angeles water interests trying for a massive water grab f...

Water package lacks clout to reverse Delta's decline The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser November 15, 2009 The momentous reform of California's water system signed into law last week is largely too...

Bay-Delta sport fishing enhancement stamp repealed CDFG News Release November 9, 2009 California anglers will no longer need to purchase a Bay-Delta Sport Fishing Enhancement Stamp as of Jan. 1, 2...

Winners and losers in water deal Contra Costa Times By Mike Taugher November 8, 2009 Follow California's water as it falls first as snow in the Sierra, melts and flows down rivers, through the Del...

Legislature passes water-system overhaul San Francisco Chronicle By Wyatt Buchanan, Marisa Lagos November 5, 2009 The sweeping overhaul of California's water system that lawmakers passed Wednesday...

Delta water plan emerges for public to view The San Francisco Chronicle By Wyatt Buchanan October 27, 2009 Strict conservation, new dams and a peripheral canal are all on the table after six weeks...

Two Gates pump plan gets mixed reaction The Fresno Bee By Robert Rodriguez October 26, 2009 A proposal to keep a threatened fish species from getting caught in the pumps at the Sacramento-San Joaq...

Frustration mounts over closed-door water talks The San Francisco Chronicle By Wyatt Buchanan October 24, 2009 Leaders at the Capitol say they are on the verge of a historic vote on a multibillion...

Delta smelt still close to extinction, surveys show The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser October 22, 2009 New surveys this summer of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta's tiny smelt show the fish remai...