April 29, 2013
by Doug Obegi
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Doug Obegi, Staff Attorney, Western Water Project, San Francisco
For more than six years, state and federal agencies, water districts, conservation groups, and other stakeholders have been working to try to develop a successful Bay Delt… Continue reading
March 26, 2013
by Kate Poole
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Kate Poole, Senior Attorney, San Francisco
A couple weeks ago, the State of California released the first of three installments describing its new draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) for restoring the Bay-Delta estuary. The s… Continue reading
March 14, 2013
by Kate Poole
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Kate Poole, Senior Attorney, San Francisco
NRDC, Defenders of Wildlife, the Planning and Conservation League, and The Bay Institute released the following statement today about the latest draft plan from the State of California for… Continue reading
January 16, 2013
by Barry Nelson
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Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco
Today, a diverse coalition of environmental and business groups and urban water agencies released a new “portfolio-based” conceptual alternative to meet the e… Continue reading
May 7, 2012
by Kate Poole
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Kate Poole, Senior Attorney, San Francisco
It seems only yesterday that Westlands Water District briefly stormed away from the Bay Delta Conservation Plan table when they were told that the days of diverting more water than the Bay-Delt… Continue reading
December 8, 2011
by Doug Obegi
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Doug Obegi, Staff Attorney, Western Water Project, San Francisco
Just about everyone agrees that the success of BDCP will rely on using sound science to guide the development of a plan for the Delta. Not surprisingly, both s… Continue reading
November 21, 2011
by Doug Obegi
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Doug Obegi, Staff Attorney, Western Water Project, San Francisco
A week ago, Tom Birmingham, the general manager of the Westlands Water District, wrote an op-ed in the Sacramento Bee about the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, which stated,
… Continue reading
November 7, 2011
by Kelly Coplin
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Kelly Coplin, Water Program Assistant, San Francisco
Last week USGS scientists and academic colleagues released an integrated assessment, the first of its kind, of how the Bay-Delta ecosystem will respond to climate change.
The authors … Continue reading
November 23, 2010
by Kate Poole
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Predictability, stability, and the confidence that a large chunk of our water supplies (and the heart of California’s aquatic ecosystem) are more than one earthquake away from total collapse – that is what the Bay Delta Conservation Plan is… Continue reading
Share on FacebookNovember 19, 2010
by Kate Poole
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A remarkable bit of honesty was committed earlier this week by representatives of the Westlands Water District. The Chief Deputy General Manager of Westlands, Jason Peltier, testified before an Assembly Committee that Westlands’ vision for … Continue reading
Share on FacebookOctober 4, 2010
by Kate Poole
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Where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruin. -Hobbes, Leviathan
The Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) has received much attention lately. This is a good thing. We need a comprehensive, long-te… Continue reading