Water Conservation Issue – Page 4 – California River Watch

By Thomas D. Elias, Los Angeles Daily News March 9, 2015 It’s beginning to look like the hosannas that greeted California’s first-ever groundwater regulation law were a tad premature when it passed late last summer. For after a tantalizing winter of heavy rains but insufficient snowfall to dent the state’s four-year drought, confusion over the groundwater […]

This is a great opportunity for us to weigh in on the priorities for the North Coast Basin Plan priorities. Vivian

January 23, 2015 · Will Parrish From WILL PARRISH, TheAVA When it comes to areas of the world being racked by drought, one of the few that has had at least as hard a time as California is central and southern Brazil. Whereas the US’s biggest state has gotten a handful of solid drenchings in the past […]

Water Community: Thanks for taking the initiative to write comments. Comment Deadline is February 5, 2015 by 12 noon. See below. The main idea behind listing streams as impaired by low flows is, like you probably already know, that water bodies are currently listed under the Clean Water Act when they are seriously impaired for […]

Hey, I wanted to give you an update on our plan to defend the Clean Water Rule before the February 4th Congressional hearing. As you know, this hearing is meant to set the stage for a vote to kill the rule, and it’s critical that we keep fighting and see that this rule over the […]

Greetings: WebEx capabilities are now included for the Expert and Public Stakeholder Meeting on Model Criteria for Groundwater Monitoring in Areas of Oil and Gas Production. The meeting is scheduled for December 11, 2014 at 8:00 a.m.. However, due to WebEx audio and attendees limitations we highly recommend that you personally attend the meeting. WebEx […]

Sign up and listen and watch, “Keeping Our Watersheds Frack Free” webinar on Thursday, December 4th, 2014 at 11 am PST. From Pennsylvania to California, from Colorado to Texas, the dirty form of gas drilling known as fracking is contaminating our water and threatening our communities. Join Clean Water Network’s webinar to learn about the […]

Greetings, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is hosting a public meeting regarding the development of model criteria for groundwater monitoring related to oil and gas well stimulation treatments, as specified in Senate Bill 4 (Pavley, Statutes of 2013). LLNL is the expert that the State Water Board is working with to develop the model criteria […]

UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, October 16, 2014 The State Water Resources Control Board recently solicited public comments on how to improve its drought curtailment of water rights. Here is a summary of insights and recommendations from a group of seven California water experts. By Ellen Hanak, Jeffrey Mount, Jay Lund, Greg Gartrell, Brian Gray, Richard […]

By Mike Dunne – Special to The Bee October 10, 2014 If you have one of those “Save Water Drink Wine” bumper stickers on your car, you might want to rip it off. And not only because the wit is so lame. The advice is erroneous. In this time of drought, a bumper sticker urging […]

Hi Folks — This information comes from the Legal Planet website. They put up an interactive timeline, which I have translated into a table. CA Groundwater Law Timeline Jane legal-planet.org California’s New Groundwater Law: An Interactive Timeline What are the major deadlines for local groundwater management agencies, and when can-or must-state agencies act? Posted on […]

To All, Don McEnhill, Executive Director of Russian Riverkeeper is a featured interview in: THE RUSSIAN RIVER: ALL RIVERS – THE VALUE OF AN AMERICAN WATERSHED “The time of using greed to justify degrading our environment is over.” “We need to get very honest with the amount of water we have in the worst year. […]

Written By: Dan Bacher, June 12, 2014 The Environmental Water Caucus, a diverse coalition including conservation, fishing and environmental justice groups and the Karuk and Winnemem Wintu Tribes, on June 11 responded to Governor Jerry Brown’s Bay Delta Conservation Plan and its associated Environmental Impact Report with a stinging 250-page critique of BDCP’s inadequacies and […]

This reporter doesn’t seem to understand that reservoirs lose water through evaporation, particularly when they get low (and thus warmer). Other problems include methane production, due to decaying vegetation that is always being supplied by the streams flowing into them and by contributions from the reservoir margins. They trap nutrients that otherwise would support coastal […]

By Robert Green For Southern Californians, the current record-breaking drought means letting the lawn fade to a trendy golden brown and making sure the hose doesn’t water the asphalt while you’re washing your car. It does not mean wondering whether anything will come out of the faucet and, unlike in the drought of 1977, it […]

J. Leslie/NYTimes THAYER SCUDDER, the world’s leading authority on the impact of dams on poor people, has changed his mind about dams. A frequent consultant on large dam projects, Mr. Scudder held out hope through most of his 58-year career that the poverty relief delivered by a properly constructed and managed dam would outweigh the […]

Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation Wednesday evening to put a controversial $7.5 water bond before voters this November. Dan Bacher, August 2014 The Legislature passed the water bond, strongly opposed by family farmers, Delta residents, Tribal leaders, fishing groups and majority of the state’s environmental groups, in spite of an intensive campaign to get key […]

Taxpayers, anglers would suffer most August 08, 2013 Guy Carl A hot topic in the California Legislature these days is the “peripheral tunnel” project designed to divert water to southern California farmers and cities. This project is strongly opposed by many salmon advocates and other environmental groups due to the further harm it would inflict […]

BY GLENDA ANDERSON THE PRESS DEMOCRAT July 3, 2014 State officials on Wednesday issued new water curtailment orders to thousands of users and adopted emergency regulations that allow them to more quickly crack down on people who ignore orders to stop diverting water from drought-stricken rivers and streams, including the upper Russian River. “Water rights […]

I thought this might be of interest. have a great week, Rue Hello, If you haven’t had a chance to view DWR’s updated Groundwater Information Center, please click on the following link: http://www.water.ca.gov/groundwater/index.cfm On the site are links to all of the available Groundwater Management Plans (grouped by Hydrologic Region), as well as groundwater level […]

Colleagues, The attached order pertaining to the Scott River recognizes that entities/counties permitting wells which are hydrologically connected to surface flows must consider the Public Trust, including impacts to surface flows in navigable rivers or impacting navigable rivers. Incidentally, it affirms that the state (SWRCB) can regulate groundwater when that groundwater is interconnected with surface […]

Ed Joyce July 17, 2014 The latest U.S. Drought Monitor shows that extreme drought has expanded in California. In the July 15 discussion of the national drought, the report shows that much of California is in either in extreme drought (81.85 percent) or exceptional drought (36.49 percent) and “May-September normally dry, there is not much […]

By Susan Sward Special to The Bee Published: Sunday, Jul. 6, 2014 – 12:00 am Last Modified: Sunday, Jul. 6, 2014 – 12:12 am In the third-largest watershed in California, the Eel River rambles through some of the state’s most stunning landscape. Nothing about the river, with its clusters of redwoods along its sandy banks, hints at […]

Hi water savers: Attached is RRWPC’s 11 month comparison of Russian River water sales to major contractors in water years 2012-13 and 2013-14, July through May (June’s data will be available in a few weeks). Also attached is an article stating that Southern CA is far from meeting 20% conservation goal called for by governor. […]

Colleagues, I have come to believe that Ag and other interests project California water rights as “too complex” for ordinary folks to understand in order to intentionally discourage citizens from understand them and therefore being empowered to weigh in. I’ll bet, for example, that most citizens of the state believe what the Farm Bureau repeats […]

To All, The purpose of this message is to reiterate to interested persons that North Coast Regional Water Board (Regional Water Board) staff is soliciting input on the triennial review process. Regional Water Board staff initiated the 2014 triennial review process for the Basin Plan in January 2014 and originally solicited recommendations for the Triennial […]

By JASON DEAREN and GARANCE BURKE May 27, 2014 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Call them the fortunate ones: Nearly 4,000 California companies, farms and others are allowed to use free water with little oversight when the state is so bone dry that deliveries to nearly everyone else have been severely slashed. Their special status dates […]

Hydrology, not environmental restrictions, are the reason for the low allocations, plus how the state can prepare for droughts in the future. by Maven The Pacific Institute and the NRDC held a media call in anticipation of the final snow survey. During the call, Peter Gleick, director of the Pacific Institute, discussed the science and […]

To All, Integrated Solutions for Drought: Simple and Effective Ways to Enhance the Natural Abundance of Your Home, Community, and the Larger World. Featuring: Brad Lancaster with Special Guests Brock Dolman & Trathen Heckman Date: Thursday, April 17 6:30-8:30. Price: $10 (No one turned away for lack of funds) Location: Petaluma Communtiy Center, 320 N. McDowell […]

Category: Water Conservation Issue

Groundwater Law Results in Confusion, Futility

Triennial Review for North Coast Regional Water Board, Mar. 12

Flying Rivers & Mega-Droughts

Action: Comment on Clean Water Act

Action: Send Letter to Defend the Clean Water Rule

Groundwater Monitoring in Areas of Oil and Gas

Webinar: Keeping Our Watersheds Frack Free

Expert Public Stakeholder Meeting to Develop Groundwater Monitoring Model Criteria for Oil and Gas Areas

Modernizing drought water allocations

Dunne on Wine: Water used to make wine becomes issue during drought

California’s New Groundwater Law: An Interactive Timeline

THE RUSSIAN RIVER: ALL RIVERS Screenings

Environmental Water Caucus Shreds ‘Misleading’ Bay Delta Conservation Plan

Comment on Dam Questions on CA’s Drought

Some Dam Questions about the California Drought

Large Dams Just Aren’t Worth the Cost

Governor Brown signs tunnels-enabling water bond

Delta tunnels bad news for salmon industry

State issues new water curtailment orders, plans swifter crackdown on diversions

DWR’s updated Groundwater Information Center

Public Trust Doctrine Applies to Groundwater

Latest Data Shows California Drought Gets More Extreme

Beautiful river, growing thirst, looming battle over the Eel River

Voluntary Water Conservation Not Working

California Water Rights Primer

2014 Triennial Review: WQ Control Plan for the North Coast Basin Plan

California’s Flawed Water System Can’t Track Usage

Pacific Institute & the NRDC hold Media Call on California’s Drought

Integrated Solutions for Drought Speaker Event

Integrated Solutions for Drought Speaker Event

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