Alex Breitler Blog
$200,000 for Delta Lobbying
http://blogs.esanjoaquin.com/san-joaquin-river-delta/2012/02/14/delta-lobbying/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+san-joaquin-river-delta+%28Alex+Breitler%27s+San+Joaquin+Delta%2C+Delta+College+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
(Right on!!)
Aquafornia.com
Alex Breitler Blog: Offspring of Calaveras River Salmon May Be Left High and Dry
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20120213%2FA_NEWS%2F202130319%2F-1%2Frss14&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RecordEnvironmentHeadlines+%28Environment+Headlines%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
Aquafornia.com
River News Herald Galen Kusic: Meral Discusses BDCP to Delta Protection Commission
http://www.pe.com/local-news/breaking-news-headlines/20120214-region-environmental-groups-join-santa-ana-sucker-lawsuit.ece
Aquafornia.com
Independent Voter Network Bob Morris: Californians Unaware that Water Comes from Sacramento Delta
http://ivn.us/news/2012/02/14/californians-unaware-that-water-comes-from-sacramento-delta/
Aquafornia.com
California Progress Report
Kristen Lynch, Pacific Region Director, Food and Water Watch: Repeal the $11.14 Billion Water Bond
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/repeal-1114-billion-water-bond
Switchboard at NRDC
Barry Nelson: The Path to Success in the Bay-Delta
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/bnelson/the_path_to_success_in_the_bay.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+switchboard_bnelson+%28Switchboard%3A+Barry+Nelson%27s+Blog%29
(This would be all well and fine, but for the next series of links)
Aquafornia.com
Central Valley Business Times
Remake of Central Valley Water Rights Moves to Vote
http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=20421
Aquafornia.com
House Committee on Natural Resources
Committee to Acton Plan to End California's Man-Made Drought and Restore Water Supplies and Jobs
http://naturalresources.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=280435
The Actual Legislation
Section by Section of the Sacramento San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act
http://nunes.house.gov/UploadedFiles/Section-by-Section_of_the_Sacramento-San_Joaquin_Valley_Water_Reliability_Act.pdf
Press Release from Congressman Nunes
http://nunes.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=280347
Aquafornia.com
KQED Climate Watch
Molly Samuel: Take Me to the River (Without Leaving My Desk)
http://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/2012/02/14/take-me-to-the-river-without-leaving-my-desk/
The Bay Daily
The Illusion of Wetland "Restoration"
http://cbf.typepad.com/bay_daily/2012/02/wetlands-were-once-seen-as-wastelands-swampy-mosquito-ridden-barriers-to-economic-development-good-only-for-draining-and.html
(This article references Chesapeake Bay, and as BDCP has made references to Chesapeake Bay and Everglades 'restoration successes', this is kinda critical to consider don't you think?)
Water News
Aquafornia.com
Costa Mesa Consolidated Water District: Promotes Commitment to Local Water Supply Reliability
http://www.mesawater.org/pressreleases/pr_020612.php
Aquafornia.com
Appeal-Democrat Ben van de Meer: Federal Budget Includes Funding for Ring Levee Work
http://www.appeal-democrat.com/news/levee-113784-federal-ring.html
Aquafornia.com
Bureau of Reclamation: Releases Final EIR Docs on Stanislaus Afterbay Dam Removal
http://www.usbr.gov/newsroom/newsrelease/detail.cfm?RecordID=39204
Aquafornia.com
KERO Bakersfield: Asbestos Found in Second Water Pumping Plant
http://www.turnto23.com/news/30447308/detail.html
Aquafornia.com
Sacramento Bee Dan Morain: Will San Francisco Vote to Drain Hetch Hetchy?
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/15/4264423/will-san-francisco-vote-to-drain.html
Aquafornia.com
The Potrero View Lori Higa: City Searches for Next Drop of Water
http://www.potreroview.net/news10715.html
Aquafornia.com
Contra Costa Times Tom Barnidge: When It Rains It Pours and You Pay
http://www.contracostatimes.com/environment/ci_19945318
Aquafornia.com
Western Water: Are We Keeping Up With Water Infrastructure Needs?
http://aquafornia.com/archives/61740
Aquafornia.com
Press Enterprise Janet Zimmerman: Diamond Valley Lake Development Guidelines Ok'd
http://www.pe.com/local-news/breaking-news-headlines/20120214-region-diamond-valley-lake-development-guidelines-okd.ece
Aquafornia.com
International Desalinization and Water Reuse Quarterly
MF/RO Plant May Be Santa Clarita Salt Solution
http://www.desalination.biz/news/news_story.asp?id=6354&channel=0&title=MF%2FRO+plant+may+be+Santa+Clarita+salt+solution
Aquafornia.com
Lower Owens River Project Draft Rec Use Plan Now Available
http://aquafornia.com/archives/61926
Aquafornia.com
SierraWave.net
Bennett Kessler: LADWP to File Second Suit Against Mammoth Community Water District
http://www.sierrawave.net/10152/mammoth-community-water-district/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sierrawave+%28Sierra+Wave%3A+Eastern+Sierra+News%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
(Classic bully in action here)
Aquafornia.com
FresnoBee.com Mark Grossi: TCP in Valley Drinking Water Story Just Gets Scarier
http://fresnobeehive.com/news/2012/02/tcp_in_valley_drinking_water_s.html
Aguanomics.com
David Zeitland: Academic Failure to Serve Public Good
http://www.aguanomics.com/2012/02/academic-failure-to-serve-public-good.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+aguanomics+%28Aguanomics%29
Aguanomics.com
David Zeitland: Speed Blogging
http://www.aguanomics.com/2012/02/speed-blogging_14.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+aguanomics+%28Aguanomics%29
Switchboard by NRDC
Noah Garrison: They're Giving Away Free Water; Capturing Rain From Our Rooftops
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/ngarrison/theyre_giving_away_free_water.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+switchboard_all+%28Switchboard%3A+Blogs+from+NRDC%27s+Environmental+Experts%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
California Farm Water Coalition
Farm Water News/Mike Wade
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2012/02/news-articles-and-links-from-feb-14.html
(No matter how many times, how many different ways and over again, when one distills the problems in the Delta to root causes, inevitably and with consistency, the root cause of ecology problems in the Delta can be pinpointed to over-draft or exports of fresh water. Every. Single. Time. Striped Bass and Salmon co-existed quite well together and still do, when the water flows are correct within the historical pre- and early export numbers. I'm not against export of Delta water to the South of Delta interests; I want exports to be within the framework and legal context of original contracts, etc. Respect those original contractual terms and we would more likely 'naturally' solve a huge bunch of the BS that's currently being thrown at us. Of course, that's not the game being perpetuated against the people of California...)
ACWA
Tim Quinn: Educating Public on Connection Between Reliable Water, Economy an Important Task
http://www.acwa.com/blog/educating-public-need-water-infrastructure-important-job-today
(Look at the partners in this new coalition...can we say AstroTurf??)
ACWA
Sarah Langford: ACWA Seeks RFQs for Solar Energy Services
http://www.acwa.com/news/energy/acwa-seeks-rfqs-solar-energy-services
ACWA
Sarah Langford: Water Bond, Pension Reform Groundwater Topics of ACWA's Legislative Symposium
http://www.acwa.com/news/state-legislation/water-bond-pension-reform-groundwater-topics-acwa%E2%80%99s-legislative-symposium-mar
Agriculture News
CapitalPress.com
Tim Hearden: Timber Industry Puts Focus on Education
http://www.capitalpress.com/content/TH-logging-education-w-photos-021712
(Sounds like one of the more 'funner' field trips to be a chaperone on!)
High Speed Rail
California Watch.com
Michael Cabanatuan, SF Chronicle: CalTrain Plan Would Fast-Track Electric Rail
http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/caltrain-plan-would-fast-track-electric-rail-14876
(CalTrain ROCKS and this one aspect of HSR actually makes sense. CalTrain runs scheduled 'Baby Bullets' from San Jose to San Francisco, what better set of tracks to electrify? If bond money is going to be spent on transportation, this project makes sense.)
California Watch.com
Tim Sheehan Fresno Bee: New Rail Leaders Hope to 'Make Things Right' in Central Valley
http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/new-rail-leaders-hope-make-things-right-central-valley-14883
Environmental News
Aquafornia.com
Redding.com Editorial: It Took Shouting , but Trinity River Planners Listened
http://www.redding.com/news/2012/feb/14/editorial-it-took-shouting-but-trinity-river/?partner=RSS
Aquafornia.com
SFGate.com Peter Fimrite: Study: Sierra Snowfall Consistent Over 130 Years
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/14/BA8N1N7HNQ.DTL
Aquafornia.com
Los Angeles News The Informer
Dennis Romero: Global Warming in CA? Not According to Snow Pack Records Analyzed by Controversial Professor John Christy
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2012/02/california_snowpack_drought_global_warming_water.php
Aquafornia.com
KCET.org Ed Fuentes: Innovative Wetlands Park Opens in South LA
http://www.sierrawave.net/10152/mammoth-community-water-district/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sierrawave+%28Sierra+Wave%3A+Eastern+Sierra+News%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
Via Aguanomics.com
Design Observer: The Very Hungry City: The California State Water Project...
http://places.designobserver.com/feature/the-very-hungry-city/32058/
(A re-post here from January 23, 2012)
California Progress Report
Kevin Hall, Central Valley Air Quality Coalition: Reps Must Lead Way on Clean Energy
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/california%E2%80%99s-representatives-must-lead-way-clean-energy
National Center for Policy Analysis
Kathleen Harnett White: EPA's Approaching Regulatory Avalanche
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=21596&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ncpadpd+%28Daily+Policy+Digest%29
National Academies Press
Exploring the Antarctic Environment: Science to Guide Research Directions
http://notes.nap.edu/2012/02/14/exploring-the-antarctic-environment-science-to-guide-research-directions/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nap%2Fnotes+%28Notes+from+NAP%29
Political News
Roll Call News
Amanda Becker: Legal Fees Show Who is Spending on Defense
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/57_96/Legal-Fees-Show-Who-Is-Spending-on-Defense-212430-1.html?ET=rollcall:e12198:80123808a:&st=email&pos=eam
(This article and headline content is misleading. According to this journalist, Mike Thompson (D-CA) and Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA) were cleared of any ethics violations and no longer paying/filling legal defense fees. However, this paragraph is buried in the article:
The re-election accounts of other lawmakers, including Reps. John Fleming (R-La.), Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) and Laura Richardson (D-Calif.), detail the cost of new and ongoing ethics cases, employment lawsuits and other legal and compliance issues, filings show. (Emphasis mine)Representative Thompson was cleared of all ethics charges, and in MHO, more important, no new or ongoing charges have been filed against him! But I AM curious about these other politicians', re-election bids and continuing ethics violation charges.)
Environmental News Service
Obama's 2013 Budget Cuts National Weather Service Information Officers
http://www.capitalpress.com/content/TH-logging-education-w-photos-021712
(Yet this administration can find the money to create how many new unconstitutional councils and fund their appointees???)
Aquafornia.com
The Deal Pipeline Bill Sprague/Gruppo Levey: US's Infrastructure Future
http://www.thedeal.com/content/restructuring/uss-infrastructure-future.php
The Foundry.com
Lachlan Markay: Senator: Sebelius Fundraising Could Compel Companies to Support Obama
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/15/senator-sebelius-fundraising-could-compel-companies-to-support-obama/
(Regardless of political party, this is very disturbing, indeed.)
Agenda 21/Sustainable Development
Litigation News
Aquafornia.com
Liberty Blog: Another Round of Ninth Circuit Delta Smelt Briefing Completed
http://aquafornia.com/archives/61882
Aquafornia.com
San Diego Daily Transcript
George Hawkins: Taxpayers Association Sides with Water Authority in Lawsuit
http://www.sddt.com/Commentary/article.cfm?Commentary_ID=206&SourceCode=20120214tzc&_t=Taxpayers+Association+sides+with+Water+Authority+in+lawsuit
Aquafornia.com
Press Enterprise Janet Zimmerman: Environmental Groups Join Santa Ana Sucker Lawsuit
http://www.pe.com/local-news/breaking-news-headlines/20120214-region-environmental-groups-join-santa-ana-sucker-lawsuit.ece
Science News
Delta Stewardship Council
Delta Science News
http://archive.deltacouncil.ca.gov/delta_science_program/publications/sci_news_0212.html
Scienceblog.com
Scientists Deploy Lasers, GPS to Measure Snow
http://scienceblog.com/52105/scientists-deploy-lasers-gps-to-measure-snow/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogrssfeed+%28ScienceBlog.com%29
EnvironmentalResearchWeb.com
Michael Finneran: 'First Light' Taken by NASA's Newest CERES Instrument
http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/yournews/48634
MailOnline.com
Rob Waugh: "Rapunzel Number Lets Scientists Predict Shape of Ponytail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2100530/Rapunzel-number-lets-scientists-predict-shape-ponytail--solving-problem-posed-Leonardo-da-Vinci.html
(At first I thought this was a 'Just For Fun' article, until I read it and the first comment. My first response was, "Whew, science finally backed up what I knew from raising four little girls with four different hair types and just how their ponytails would come out"!)
Just For Fun
TheNibble.com
Pairing Wines and Chocolates Part 1 and 2
http://www.thenibble.com/reviews/main/chocolate/pairing-wine1.asp
http://www.mesawater.org/pressreleases/pr_020612.php
(Now THIS is science requiring some hands-on research! Happy Belated Valentine's Day!)
WholeFoodsMarket.com
Guide to Chocolate
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/guides/chocolate.php
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