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BlogsTim Stroshane: When is a drought not an emergency?See our full media release. Most of the time in California, it seems. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Alice Vilardi on Monday, March 15, 2010, ruled that the Governor and the California Department of Water Resources illegally approved the 2009 Drought Water Bank when they “improperly” exempted the water transfer program from the California Environmental Quality Act last year.
Tom Stokely: Ending Selenium Pollution of the San Joaquin River and Bay-Delta
Imagine that a heavily subsidized industry puts thousands of pounds of toxic pollutants into groundwater and surface water and then argues that while they have had 14 years to avoid meeting water quality standards, they want almost another decade because they don’t have the public financing or the technology to treat their pollution. Well, it’s all right here in California’s western San Joaquin Valley.
See C-WIN's Media Advisory on the upcoming selenium waivers here.
Dan Bacher: Mother Jones Article Promotes Corporate Agribusiness AstroturfingC-WIN Guest Blog by Dan Bacher The "Astroturf" campaign by corporate agribusiness to build a peripheral canal and more dams to increase Delta water exports has relentlessly promoted the myth that crops grown on drainage-impaired land on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley "feed the nation" or "feed the world."
Tim Stroshane: State Water Board learns Delta fish populations continue to decline
The State Water Resources Control Board held a special "organizational issues" meeting on December 8, 2009, at the 6th floor conference room of the Solano County Administrative Center in Fairfield's ultra-modern Solano County Administrative Center. The most alarming thing I learned at the meeting was that the decline of the Delta's open water fish populations continues. Pelagic ("open water") Organism Decline (POD) species abundance indices for the first two months of the Fall midwater trawl (FMWT) are complete and found that abundance indices for Delta smelt, American shad, and striped bass are the lowest in history. The index for longfin smelt is the third lowest in history.
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