Posts Tagged: Westlands Water District

Hope for water progress in California may be evaporating

By Marc Albert | Nov 24 2010 at 14:24 | Your take

Talks aimed at forging a compromise in California’s intractable water wars — in process for more than a decade — hit a potentially serious snag as the nation’s largest irrigation district announced it would no longer contribute to the cost of studies. (more…)

Topics: Beltway Outsider, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Departmentalized – Federal Agencies, Dept. of Agriculture, Dept. of the Interior, Environment, Fish & Wildlife Service, Issues & Ideas, National Marine Fisheries Service, Official Corruption, Regulation, U.S. Geological Survey
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Let it flow: more water than expected for farmers in California

By Marc Albert | Jun 15 2010 at 10:06 | Your take
Shasta Dam

Ho-hum, Doomsday has been postponed again.

All the warnings of a parched summer for California agriculture just went down the drain.  California growers will receive just under half of their contracted allotments of federal irrigation water, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Monday. (more…)

Topics: Beltway Outsider, Dept. of the Interior, Environment, Government in My Backyard (GIMBY)
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No water left for the ocean in California

By Marc Albert | May 26 2010 at 12:19 | Your take

Farming interests triumphed over environmentalists and federal officials in round 6742 of the California water wars as a federal judge eased pumping restrictions Tuesday in California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, sending more river water to farms and leaving less for endangered fish. At least for the next three weeks. (more…)

Topics: Beltway Outsider, Government in My Backyard (GIMBY), National Marine Fisheries Service
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