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Negative Ruling on Nation’s Largest Water Transfer Should Instigate Examination of State’s Poor Water Management

Last Thursday, Superior Court Judge Roland L. Candee issued a tentative order invalidating the nation’s largest agricultural-to-urban water transfer...

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Budget Cuts, Tax Witholdings, Tuition Hikes … and a $11.14 Billion Water Bond?

Last month the California Legislature passed an $11.14 billion water bond to appear on the November 2010 ballot. Since then the state has raised income tax...

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Game On: Efforts Resume to Remove Seismically Unsafe Dam on the Carmel River

The owner of San Clemente Dam on the Carmel River just announced that the company is back on track to work with others to remove the 106 foot-tall obsolete and...

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Statewide Rejection of Water Bond Measure

Newspapers across California are advising voters that the $11.14 billion water bond that the legislature put on the ballot next November is bloated and...

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Water Package Offers Subsidies – Not Solutions

In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, while most Californians were sound asleep, the state legislature passed a package of bills and a bond that rewards bad...

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The Water Special Session

Following Governor Schwarzenegger’s’ call for a special session on water policy, a joint legislative committee began hearings on Monday to discuss...

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SWRCB Issues Cease-and-Desist Order to Stop Illegal Diversions from Carmel River

On Tuesday, the State Water Resources Control Board voted 3-1 to issue a cease-and-desist order (CDO) to halt California American Water’s (Cal-Am)...

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State Treasurer Says Water Infrastructure Funding Should Come From Users; Bond Spending Not Fiscally Prudent Now

For months, Governor Schwarzenegger has been pressuring lawmakers to saddle taxpayers with a multi-billion dollar bond to pay for new dams and other water...

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Governor Still Stuck on Dams As Deadline for Bill Signing Nears

In a repeat of last year’s end-of-session gamesmanship, Governor Schwarzenegger is threatening to veto most of the 700 bills sitting on his desk this...

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Mixed Signals From Washington on Fate of Bay-Delta

While the California Legislature continues to work on a comprehensive package of Delta bills, the Obama Administration entered the fray on Tuesday with six...

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