FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Media Contact: Robert Dolezal (916) 408-5144 (Hanford, California) The California Water Alliance (CalWA) Board of Directors today voted to oppose Proposition 68, a statewide legislative initiative titled the Parks, Environment and Water Bond, appearing on the ballot in June’s Primary Election. “All too often, Californians are fooled when they cast their ballots…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Media Contact: Robert Dolezal (916) 408-5144 The California Water Alliance (CalWA) Board of Directors voted unanimously Tuesday to join major agricultural, environmental, conservation, and other organizations in endorsing passage of a new statewide citizen’s ballot initiative and bond measure on November’s ballot. Upon passage, the water bond measure will fund $8.877…
By: William Bourdeau For forty years, not a single new state-funded dam or reservoir was built in the state, even as California’spopulation doubled. Rather than build critical water infrastructure, California turned instead to its legislature and administrative bureaucrats to ration the state’s water resources to Californians. Now they regularly impose mandates restricting how we…
California Water Alliance MEDIA ALERT Friday, October 12, 2018 Media Contact Robert Dolezal [email protected] (510) 599-5189 (October 12, 2018—Hanford, California) Several major California media outlets that for months have famously defended other classes of victims from their harassers are now blaming Central Valley farmers and rural communities for water problems created by California’s and…
Media Advisory By: The California Water Alliance A Presidential Memorandum to the Secretaries of the Interior, Commerce, Energy, Army and the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality: Promoting the Reliable Supply and Delivery of Water in the West (October 20, 2018) President Donald Trump’s executive order memorandum establishes policy and directs his Cabinet…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact Robert Dolezal [email protected] (510) 599-5189 October 22, 2018 (Hanford, California) – The West and the people who live in it have suffered over water for decades. By turns, they’ve toiled with: • Confusing, frequently contentious debate over California water policy, • Arbitrary court decisions, …
Media ArticlesBy Ryan Sabalow and Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee California shifts water from farms, cities to fish. But a Jerry Brown compromise plan isn’t dead. (December 12, 2018) Despite an epic last-minute, $1.7 billion compromise agreement announced Wednesday by Gov. Jerry Brown and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the State Water Resources Control Board voted Wednesday to reallocate billions…
By John Harris JULY 11, 2019 11:02 AM, UPDATED JULY 11, 2019 11:02 AM In the California water world, nothing has the potential to cause more damage than a “comprehensive” bill on a fast track. Such is the case with Senate Bill 1 (Atkins, Portantino, Sher), the “California Environmental, Public Health, and Workers Defense Act…
I Heart Radio’s The Trevor Carey Show had guest host Tal Cloud talk with William Bourdeau of Harris Ranch, and also the chairman of the California Water Alliance, to discuss the future of California Water. To listen click here.
William Bourdeau: Surface Water Must Be Tied to SGMA By Patrick Cavanaugh, Editor William Bourdeau is Vice President of Harris Farms, a Director of Westlands Water District, and Chairman of the Board of the California Water Alliance. Bourdeau recently talked to California Ag Today about the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), which will force growers…