Posts Tagged ‘California Water’
California Water Alliance releases statement on first snow water-content measures
Visalia, CA – The first snow survey by the California Department of Water Resources revealed that the water content at Phillips Station in Sierra Nevada snowpack is at three percent of the normal average for this time of year. While today’s reading is the first measurement of the water year, these numbers determine the depth…
Read MoreFlint and California, a painfully parallel water-quality universe
By Aubrey Bettencourt, California Water Alliance Posted in The Fresno Bee Flint, Michigan, and its 100,000 citizens exist in one universe; California’s Central Valley and its population of nearly a million cling to survival in another. Both have economic woes. Both suffer a deadly water supply made toxic with lead. Beyond that, all comparison…
Read MoreTrump Provides California Water Solutions as Gov. Brown Focuses on his Legacy
By Aubrey Bettencourt Executive Director, California Water Alliance | Thursday, May 25th, 2017 On May 13, 2017, Governor Brown outlined his revised budget proposal focusing the state’s financial resources on his High Speed Rail legacy project and renewing its efforts to fight the Trump Administration on multiple fronts. While he may have dropped the mic with…
Read MoreScientific Study Contradicts Basis for State Water Board’s River Flow Mandates
By Aubrey Bettencourt | Fox & Hounds A new environmental study, published in in the prestigious North American Journal of Fisheries Management, reveals that Governor Jerry Brown’s State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) imposed so-called pulse-flow release requirements on water rights holders affecting several California rivers, operating from unproven beliefs the study now shows were without sufficient…
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