Feds seek water deal; west-side farmers balk The Fresno Bee By Mark Grossi September 8, 2010 The federal government wants to offer west Valley farmers some of the canals, pumps and other facilitie...

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...

Aqualliance files lawsuit KHSLTV News By Linda Watkins-Bennett September 7, 2010 A Chico water group is accusing the state of failing to protect California's fisheries, by shipping too much North ...

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...

Major threats remain to California water supply CAVIN By Greg Lucas August 19, 2010 Late spring storms, a heftier Sierra snowpack, and higher reservoir levels have largely made Californians believ...

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 ...

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...

South Valley farmers benefit in S.J. River plan Stockton Record By Alex Breitler July 9, 2010 It's been a year for milestones on the San Joaquin River. In September, a jet of water released from...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Sacramento wrangling over water bond money San Francisco Chronicle By Wyatt Buchanan May 24, 2010 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget proposal includes $1.8 billion from an $11 billion water bond ...

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...

Judge reverses stance on Delta rules Contra Costa Times By Mike Taugher May 18, 2010 A federal judge who invalidated permits on California's dams and Delta pumps two years ago because they were to...

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...

Final state snow survey of the year shows good outlook Lake County News May 2, 2010 On the heels of late season storms, manual and electronic readings taken during the final snow survey of the yea...

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...

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...

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...

Conflicts alleged for 2 on Delta water council The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser April 3, 2010 The new governing body charged with fixing the Delta's many problems is off to a rocky start, with co...

Fishermen try to save Chinook salmon in Delta The San Francisco Chronicle By Carolyn Jones April 2, 2010 Pummeled by two straight years of canceled fishing seasons, enraged salmon fishermen held a...

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 ...

Local congressmen attend salmon summit KGO News By Mark Matthews April 1, 2010 Hundreds of angry salmon fisherman crowded into a meeting with elected officials in San Francisco on Thursday. It wa...

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...

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 ...

Scientists side with smelt, salmon protections The Los Angeles Times By Bettina Boxall March 19, 2010 A National Academy of Sciences panel has concluded that the much-disputed fish protections tha...

Judge orders review of water pumping limits By Maria Dinezo March 17, 2010 A federal judge in Sacramento sided with California water agencies and contractors in their dispute with the federal gove...

Water bank violated environmental laws The Fresno Bee March 17, 2010 An Alameda County judge has ruled that California water managers violated state environmental laws when they set up a water ban...

Rain boosts Delta water supply allocations Sacramento Business Journal March 16, 2010 Farmers and cities north and south of the Delta will receive more water than previously allocated due to an in...

Changes needed to rules governing delta smelt Mercury News By Laura King Moon March 15, 2010 This winter, on certain days, it would take only two small fish known as delta smelt to show up at Cali...

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...

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 ...

Another water project could divide the state The Los Angeles Times By Bettina Boxall March 9, 2010 Reporting from Orange Cove, Calif. - Harvey Bailey was 11 when Friant Dam started spitting the Sa...

One wet year does not a drought-buster make Tracy Press By Jon Mendelson March 6, 2010 With storms sweeping through Northern California every few days, there's a question on water-watchers' lips: ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Rev 'em up: With delta smelt moved, pumps are a go Los Angeles Times February 18, 2010 The delta smelt have moved, allowing water managers to turn up -- at least for now -- the federal pumps that ...

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...

Feinstein's play threatens to roil the water world The Sacramento Bee February 14, 2010 In her long and mostly distinguished career, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein has championed many environmental ca...

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 ...

Judge allows slowdown of pumps to protect smelt The Los Angeles Times By Bettina Boxall February 11, 2010 The big federal pumps that were cranked up over the weekend to send more Northern Californ...

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 ...

Ecologists say unrestricted pumping will harm fish Mercury News February 8, 2010 Environmentalists say a federal judge's order to temporarily allow unrestricted pumping in the Sacramento-San Joaqu...

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...

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...

Steady flow of conflicting views marks Delta debate Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser January 27, 2010 It's even more vexing if you're trying to figure out how the Delta environment works. A federa...

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...

Science panel's review of California water woes The Sacramento Bee By Matt Weiser January 21, 2010 An elite science panel's work to clarify California's water problems has become, instead, the la...

Water briefing provides little encouragement California Farm Bureau Federation By Kate Campbell January 20, 2010 Hope was in shorter supply than water at a briefing on the state's water supply sit...

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 ...

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...

Bottleneck at Delta must be opened The Sun By Jeff Kightlinger December 26, 2009 Heading into 2010, one thing is certain about the water situation for the Inland Valley and all of Southern Califor...

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...

Barrier keeps chinook out of old river CALFED Science News December 9, 2009 Preliminary results from a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation-led project show that a sound, air and light barrier was successfu...

Calif. eyes $10.6 billion cost for water tunnel San Jose Mercury News December 3, 2009 Calif.-State water officials said Thursday it could cost $10.6 billion to send water to Southern California t...

California braces for fourth year of drought Contra Costa Times By Mike Taugher December 1, 2009 State water officials offered up their bleakest annual water supply prediction ever Tuesday in what...

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...

Scientists to study California irrigation practices McClatchy By Michael Doyle November 10, 2009 Some of the nation's most esteemed scientists will review recent environmental decisions that have ...

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...

Accounting of everything affecting Delta smelt, salmon Central Valley Business Times November 3, 2009 Legislation has been introduced by U.S. Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Merced, that calls for a revi...

Legislators continue talks on state water plan The Sacramento Bee By Steve Wiegand November 3, 2009 California legislators took a first step on an ambitious path to overhaul the state's water sys...

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 'fix' must preserve water rights The San Francisco Chronicle By Dennis Diemer, Ed Harrington October 6, 2009 In California, there are few crises as urgent - or as complex - as reviving the S...

Smelt plan lacked critical analysis The Fresno Bee By John Ellis October 2, 2009 The federal government failed to conduct a critical environmental analysis before approving a controversial set of ...

Officials called to conference on Calif. drought Associated Press By Kevin Freking September 30, 2009 WASHINGTON - The Obama administration on Wednesday urged California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger...

U.S. Senate's failed water amendment The Sacramento Bee By Michael Doyle September 24, 2009 WASHINGTON - A Central Valley water amendment that failed Tuesday night in the Senate nonetheless succe...

When it comes to valley ag, Sean Hannity is all wet The Stockton Record September 23, 2009 Sean Hannity parachuted into the San Joaquin Valley last week to broadcast another diatribe about the "ma...