http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/california-targets-wrong-water-wasters/Content?oid=4222724 By Robert Gammon March 18, 2015 Late last week, a senior water scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech issued a harsh wake-up call to California when he revealed that the state is down to just one year of water supplies because of the drought and the overuse of water in the…

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/17/1371584/-Fishermen-and-Delta-leaders-say-exporters-are-destroying-Delta-smelt# TUE MAR 17, 2015 AT 03:13 PM PDT By Dan Bacher The Delta smelt, once the most abundant fish in the entire Bay Delta Estuary, may already be extinct, according to UC Davis fish biologist and author Peter Moyle, as quoted on Capital Public Radio. “Prepare for the extinction of the Delta Smelt in…

http://www.recordnet.com/article/20150306/News/150309749 By Alex Breitler Posted Mar. 6, 2015 at 8:00 PM State water watchdogs may allow more water to be pumped south from the Delta this month, but only under “very limited circumstances.” The decision, announced late Thursday, came two weeks after an emotional hearing in which south San Joaquin Valley farmers and farm workers…

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/06/1369030/-Worst-American-River-steelhead-run-on-record-nears-dismal-end FRI MAR 06, 2015 AT 10:16 AM PST By Dan Bacher Nimbus Fish Hatchery staff continue to see the worst steelhead run on the American River, Sacramento’s unique urban jewel, but a few fish continue to trickle into the river. “We have trapped 143 adult steelhead, including 93 females and 45 males, to date,”…

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/environment/article11882384.html BY MATT WEISER 03/01/2015 11:00 AM Hundreds of property owners across California’s Central Valley and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta are scrambling to prove they have a right to divert water from the region’s streams, the result of a state order that comes due in just four days. The order from the State Water Resources…