From 2000 to 2008, voters approved nearly $100 billion in general obligation bonds to fund the state’s infrastructure needs with about a quarter of that being approved for water infrastructure projects. However, not all of those bond funds have been...
Meanwhile, a different group of NGOs, namely Friends of the River, the Environmental Water Caucus, Restore the Delta, the California Water Impact Network, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, and other organizations too numerous to mention have written a letter to the...
On August 13th, the Senate Governance and Finance and the Natural Resources and Water Committees held a joint information hearing titled, “The Governance and Financing of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan: Overview of the Issues.” The hearing was co-chaired by...
From Senator Wolk’s office, this press release: Senator Lois Wolk (D-Davis) today introduced a $5.6 billion water bond to provide funding for broadly supported projects to address the state’s urgent water needs. “SB 42 is a fresh approach to this...
The five Fresno County supervisors have written Senator Feinstein, asking her to introduce legislation to aid the Central Valley in avoiding the same conditions that the Valley suffered through in 2009 when water allocations were low and 300,000 acres of...
