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Hot Button Issue
Delta water bills and the battle to stop the canal
August 30-Peripheral Canal Would Cost $23 to $53.8 Billion! by Dan Bacher
August 28-San Joaquin Valley Water Users File Suit Over Water Restrictions: Federal Actions To Protect Salmon Based On Flawed Science continued at The Coalition to "Destroy" the Delta
August 28-Second Thoughts: Worries abound as the Delta nears collapse from the Tracy Press
August 28-Caballero gets behind $11.7B water bond, funds to fix Delta from the Hollister Free Lance
August 27-Water Privateering on the Westside San Joaquin Valley
August 26-Westside farmer sells water for $77 million from the Hanford Sentinel
August 26-Agriculture Secretary assesses California water problems from
the San Diego Union Tribune
August 26-Send a letter to Huffman and Pavley on the Delta Bill Package, it takes less than a minute!
August 25-CSPA's Bill Jennings rips Delta Bill Package apart at Capitol hearings
August 25-Fixing Delta comes with high price tag, Costs could total $54 billion from the Contra Costa Times
August 25-Plan to divide Delta must give more thought to residents from the Tracy Press
August 25-Battle Lines Are Drawn Over Peripheral Canal by Dan Bacher
August 25-CSPA's Bill Jennings rips Delta Bill Package apart at Capitol hearings
August 24-A letter to the legislature from Felix Smith on the Public Trust and our loss in the Delta Bill Package by Felix Smith
August 24-A Burston-Marsteller Greenwash: Westlands Hoards Surplus Water While Farmers Suffer by Dan Bacher
August 23-Governor's Delta plan hits bumpy patch from the Contra Costa Times
August 22-You can save the Delta and stop the canal: Sign the petition, write your legislators Sign Petition Write Letters
August 22-Schwarzenegger Pushes Canal As Salmon Rivers Are Sucked Dry/Urgent Action Alert by Dan Bacher
August 21-Governor wants canal, legislators want to cut deal from Restore the Delta
August 20-Water Resources, the Public Trust doctrine and Racanelli
August 20-'Water buffaloes' got it all wrong from the L.A. Times
August 20-Westlands Hoards Surplus Water While Farmworkers Suffer by Dan Bacher
August 20-Obsession with dams overshadows Delta water hearing from the Environmental Defense Fund
August 19-Protect Endangered Fish, Save the Fishermen
August 19-Westlands hides surplus water while farm workers beg for work and food
August 18-Politicians, Delta Advocates, Fishermen speak at Capitol Rally
August 18-Gov. demands water bond for dams from the Fresno Bee
August 18-Coalition Unveils California Water Solutions Report at Capitol Press Conference
August 18-Major water action vowed, but all sides are skeptical from the Sacramento Bee
August 18-Satan Leaves the Delta! Too much competition!
August 17-Million Boat Float arrives before Delta bill hearing by Dan Bacher
August 17-Water Bill Hearing Preview In Sacramento
August 17-Broad Coalition releases new report on sustainable California water solutions
August 16-Float organizers speak: Million Boat Float aimed at quashing Peripheral Canal
August 16-Dan Walters: A new shot at settling Delta water war from the Sacramento Bee
August 15-CSPA Action Alert 8.15.09
August 13-Undersecretary Hayes now knows there is no unanimity about a peripheral canal and BDCP
August 13-California Water Forum Excludes Delta Communities by Dan Bacher
August 11-Lester's Stacked Deck: Are we surprised?
August 11-Are you going to any of the week's events? Please take this survey!
August 11-A food fight over water: Such a big problem, so little time from the San Diego Union-Tribune
August 10-Alert! The Delta and its fisheries need you
August 7-Cost Estimates Missing From Contentious Delta Bill Package from the California Progress Report
August 7-Calif. Adds 'Delta Tunnel' to List of Possible Water Supply Solutions from the New York Times
August 6-Irrigation Districts Confess: it's the pumps and inadequate flows that are killing Central Valley salmon
August 6-Deputy Interior Secretary Hayes, CA Water Resources Director Lester Snow to Hold Public Meeting on California’s Water Challenges
August 5-Opinion: Beware new Peripheral Canal around delta
August 5-Delta group details irk community: One member to represent S.J. interests out of panel of seven from the Stockton Record
August 4-Delta Community and Environment Groups Respond to Delta Legislative Water Package
August 4-Stealth Legislation Unveiled: A Road Map to the Peripheral Canal by Dan Bacher
July 30-Huffman Legislation does not support Peripheral Canal -- Assembly Press Release
July 30-Legislature will authorize council, try to bypass public input for construction of Canal from Restore The Delta
July 30-Water politics ripple through Capitol from Capitol Weekly
July 28-Smaller Delta canal could work nearly as well as massive one in the works from the Contra Costa Times
July 28-Peripheral Canal Issue Emerges As Crucial in Post-Budget California from the California Progress Report
July 27-'Million boat' protest planned over Delta canal from the Sacramento Bee
July 27-Will Peripheral Canal Be Considered After the August Recess? from the California Progress Report
July 26-Schwarzenegger regime plans to start drilling for peripheral canal
July 26-New Peripheral Canal Analysis Reveals Project to be Dysfunctional Scheme
July 23-Any water deal must give Delta protections the top priority from Capitol Weekly
July 22-Million Boat Float to Stop Arnold’s Panama Canal North
July 22-Unusual process sends state water bills to committee
July 21-The Million Boat Float to the capitol, August 16, 17
July 18-Schwarzenegger Administration Will Begin Drilling for Peripheral Canal by Dan Bacher
July 17-Assemblymember Jared Huffman replies to editorial on YubaNet.Com
July 16-Op-Ed|State Legislators Simitian and Huffman's Peripheral Canal: Will it Destroy the Delta? from YubaNet.Com
July 16-Opinion: Delta is the concern of all from the Stockton Record
July 15- Peripheral Canal drilling could start next month from the Stockton Record
July 14-Valley lawmakers clash over water from the Fresno Bee
July 13-CA Op-Ed: Kathryn Gray: The Stealth Canal from Yuba.Net
July 9-Delta Groups Rally Against The Panama Canal North by Dan Bacher
July 9-Peripheral Canal, crux of state water wars, draws fire from Capital Weekly
July 8-Coalition wants role in Delta's future from the Daily Democrat
July 7-Delta canal plan protested from the Sacramento Bee
July 7-Capitol rally protests delta canal plan from the Fresno Bee
July 7-Delta supporters rally at Capitol's door from the Stockton Record
July 7-The Delta Press Conference, July 7, 2009
July 6-See you at the Capitol tomorrow: You're needed!
July 6-New website features 12 minute video expose on Canal falsehoods
July 5-Water use must change whether fish live or die from the San Francisco Chronicle
July 5-Take a good look at costly water bills - the ones in Sacramento from the San Francisco Chronicle
July 5-Limit agribusiness - for salmon's sake from the San Francisco Chronicle
July 5-VANISHING HABITAT: As the delta goes, so go our salmon from the San Francisco Chronicle
July 3--How it works: The Bay Delta Conservation Plan from the Contra Costa Times
July 3-Divisive Delta canal now on the fast track: Fears loom that moving water south could devastate, contaminate supply from the Contra Costa Times
July 3-Delta advocates plan Capitol rally from the Stockton Record
July 3-Let Your Voices Be Heard - Rally For The Delta: July 7, 2009 from Restore the Delta
July 1-Peripheral Canal: Panama Canal North? Proposed government boondoggle would be 500 to 700 feet wide, with 1,300 foot right-of-way by Dan Bacher
June 26-Delta Water Bills Threaten our Fisheries: Another call for support at the Capital
June 24-The governor reinvents the shell game, if we lose it will cost us billions