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  • Environmental organizations, fishing organizations, tribes, and Delta stakeholders protest rollback of environmental protections

    http://mavensnotebook.com/2014/04/04/this-just-in-environmental-organizations-fishing-organizations-tribes-and-delta-stakeholders-protest-rollback-of-environmental-protections-environmental-laws-are-not-the-cause-of-water-short/ This just in … Environmental organizations, fishing organizations, tribes, and Delta stakeholders protest rollback of environmental protections: “Environmental laws are not the cause of water shortages, and waiving them is not the solution.” The NRDC, the Environmental Water Caucus, the CSPA, Friends of the River, Restore the Delta, and numerous other fishing, wildlife, Native…

  • Northern California Rivers and Fish Doomed Absent Immediate Agency Action

    https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/04/18753552.php by Dan Bacher Friday Apr 4th, 2014 11:33 AM Tribes, Fishing Groups and Conservation Groups Call for “Flow Listings” Initial projections of the April 1 snowpack assessment, a key indicator of water conditions, indicate that snowpack is near record lows and that water storage is less than 30% of normal conditions, according to a…

  • State and feds increase Delta water exports by 433 percent

    https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/03/18753519.php by Dan Bacher Thursday Apr 3rd, 2014 10:55 AM “The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, National Marine Fisheries Service and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife have chaperoned the decline of fish species for 30 years,” said Bill Jennings, Executive Director of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA). “I have little confidence in…

  • Sacramento River salmon trucking program begins

    https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/03/26/18753142.php by Dan Bacher Wednesday Mar 26th, 2014 10:23 AM Federal and state officials and fishing group representatives yesterday greeted the beginning of a trucking program designed to transport Sacramento River juvenile salmon from a federal fish hatchery in Anderson, California to the Delta in order to improve their chances of survival in drought conditions.…

  • California drought puts spotlight on water theft

    http://www.sacbee.com/2014/03/23/6259597/california-drought-puts-spotlight.html BY MATT WEISER March 23, 2014 It’s amazingly easy to steal water from a California stream. Even in this epic drought, the state has no way of monitoring exactly who is tapping into its freshwater supplies and how much they take. And those who do get caught taking water they have no right to…