Friday, February 17, 2012

Delta Water and News Links, February 17, 2012

Delta News
Aquafornia.com
Congressman Garamendi, Issues Statement on Water Bill
http://garamendi.house.gov/2012/02/garamendi-issues-statement-on-water-bill.shtml

Aquafornia.com
SacBee.com
Viewpoints: $11M Water bond Should Be Repealed Adam Scow and Barbara Barrigan-Parilla
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/17/4270498/11-billion-water-bond-should-be.html#disqus_thread
(Comments are interesting and disturbing)

CalWatchDog.com
Wayne Lusvardi, Farmers Want Out of Delta Bills
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2012/02/16/farmers-want-out-of-delta-bills/
(Kudos to Restore the Delta, you made direct reference in this article!!  I'd like to hear other comments regarding the content of this article!)

Aquafornia.com
Websites of Senators Feinstein and Boxer
Letter to Natural Resources Committee, Nunes Revised Bill
http://aquafornia.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/DF-BB_Ltr_to_House_Natural_Resources_Committee_-Rivised_Nunes_Bill_021512.pdf

Aquafornia.com
Congressman Denham, Streamlining Regulations to Bring a Reliable Water Supply to the Valley
http://denham.house.gov/press-release/congressman-denham-streamlining-regulations-bring-reliable-water-supply-valley-and

Aquafornia.com
California Water Impact Network
Dan Bacher, Nunes Bill Will Remove Delta Protections Passes Committee

InkstainBlog.com
John Fleck, What's Devin Nunes Up To?
http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/2012/02/whats-devin-nunes-up-to/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JfleckAtInkstain+%28jfleck+at+inkstain%29

Aquafornia.com
Doc Hastings, Chairman House Committee on Natural Resources
Announcement of Bill to Stop Man-Made Drought in California

Aquafornia.com
Central Valley Business Times
House Committee Sends Bill to House Floor
http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=20436

Aquafornia.com
Central Valley Business Times
Carolyn Lockheed, Central Valley Rep's Bill Will Upend Water Rights
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/16/MNM81N8JQQ.DTL&type=science

Aquafornia.com
YouTube.com H.R. 1837 Mark Up Committee Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LItYyooo9Q&feature=youtube_gdata
YouTube.com H.R. 1837 Mark Up Committee Part 2

Aquafornia.com
Devin Nunes Press Release
http://nunes.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=280926

h/t Bill Wells
Sacramento Delta Solutions
Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=gne8rzdab&v=001XqiOmN3J1DDKM6SRKyDZydBC9zxSHgO1o2XvoNd3anaRgWQAWqBo70Lr68m-zBEDrkC0gf8dSVBy41SK7Pl_a28Yz9BIusAFqTXQDTe9-liw-IIArZS8uQ%3D%3D

Delta National Park
John Bass, The Water Hyacinth Authority Exchange
http://www.deltanationalpark.org/blog/view/the_water_hyacinth_exchange_authority/
But to the rest of the world, Nunes is a terrible joke, at least from the point of view of people looking to find reasonable win-win solutions to (Delta) problems.
(Well, one quote of Mr. Bass' I can agree with!)

Water News
Aquafornia.com
NYTimes.com
Editorial, Hetch Hetchy's Past and Future
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/opinion/hetch-hetchys-past-and-future.html?_r=2

Aquafornia.com
Imperial Valley Press
Elizabeth Varin, Parties in QSA Case Questioning Bias of Appellate Judge
http://www.ivpressonline.com/news/ivp-parties-in-qsa-case-questioning-bias-of-appellate-judge-20120217,0,1059552.story

Aquafornia.com
Surf City Voice
Mark Gutglueck, Opposition to Santa Margarita Water District's Plan to Suck Desert Water Grows
http://www.surfcityvoice.org/2012/02/opposition-to-santa-margarita-water-districts-plan-to-suck-desert-water-grows-from-the-desert-to-the-sea/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SurfCityVoice+%28Surf+City+Voice%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Aquafornia.com
Courthouse.com
Matt Reynolds, L.A. Blasts State in Owens Lake Water War
http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/02/17/43986.htm

Aguanomics.com
David Zeitland, Values and Markets
http://www.aguanomics.com/2012/02/values-and-markets.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+aguanomics+%28Aguanomics%29

OCRegister.com
Chris Boucley, Home Builders Sue Water Districts over Copper Pipe Leaks
http://www.ocregister.com/news/water-340682-leaks-copper.html

Aquafornia.com
Waterworld.com
Robert J Sprouls, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin: How Water Rates Are Set
http://www.waterworld.com/index/display/news_display/1606081911.html

California Farm Water Coalition
Farm Water News, Mike Wade
http://farmwaternews.blogspot.com/2012/02/news-articles-and-links-from-feb-17.html

Aquafornia.com
Yubanet.com
NRDC Capturing Rainwater From Our Rooftops
http://yubanet.com/enviro/Capturing-Rainwater-from-Rooftops-Report.php#.Tz7s04fCnjt

Aquafornia.com
Herald and News
Joel Aschebrenner At Issue:  Undam the River, Or Not?
http://www.heraldandnews.com/news/article_0cd0813e-5869-11e1-bea2-0019bb2963f4.html

Aquafornia.com
Herald and News
Happy Camp, CA Dam Removal Worries Those on Flood Plain
http://www.heraldandnews.com/news/article_890fc2fa-593b-11e1-9220-0019bb2963f4.html

Aquafornia.com
Santa Cruz Sentinel Muddying the Waters, Competing Desal Measures Further Cloud Debate
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/opinion/ci_19985441

Aquafornia.com
MercedSunStar.com
Yesenia Amaro UC Merced's Next Generation Water Fountains Help In Elimination of Waste
http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2012/02/17/2234265/uc-merceds-next-generation-water.html

Aquafornia.com
Ridgecrestca.com
John Ciani, Daily Independent, Water District Responds to County Letter
http://www.ridgecrestca.com/news/x1528909159/Water-district-responds-to-county-letter

Agriculture News
Agriculture.com
Stubborn US Farmers?
http://www.agriculture.com/markets/newswire?page=story&id=3184739
(I believe weather has more to do with this than farmers being stubborn.  But if the boot fits....!)

Sacramento Business Journal
Melanie Turner: Wine Exports Set Record
http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2012/02/17/wine-exports-set-record.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bizj_sacramento+%28Sacramento+Business+Journal%29

Political News
California Institute For Federal Policy Research
http://www.calinst.org/bul2/b1905.shtml
(Several committee hearings that directly affect the Delta listed here)

UnfilteredNews.com
TenthAmendmentCenter Blog
Michael Boldin NDAA Nullification Passes Virginia House 96-4
http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2012/02/ndaa-nullification-passes-virginia-house-96-4/
(So it CAN happen!)

Aquafornia.com
SanLuisObispo.com
David Sneed, Blakeslee Pushes 3 Bills to Reform Water Quality Rules
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2012/02/15/1950430/blakeslee-pushes-3-bills-to-reform.html

CalWatchDog.com
Katy Grimes Assemblyman Defends Maxine Waters
http://www.calwatchdog.com/2012/02/17/assemblyman-defends-maxine-waters/

Environmental News
Aquafornia.com
TahoeDailyTribune.com
California Trout Pushes for 'Wild and Scenic" Designation on Upper Truckee River
http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/article/20120216/NEWS/120219919/1056&parentprofile=1056

Aquafornia.com
UTSanDiego.com
Mike Lee, Plan for Sea Level Rise in San Diego Bay
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/feb/17/tp-plan-for-sea-level-rise-in-san-diego-bay/

CalWatchDog.com
Wayne Lusvardi, Santa Barbara Oil Leases Reopened?

Science News

Aquarfornia.com
FresnoBee.com, Fresno Native Making Sierra Climate Waves
http://fresnobeehive.com/news/2012/02/fresno_native_making_sierra_cl.html#comments
(Excellent rebuttal from John Christy in the comments)


Aquafornia.com
Bay Citizen, John Upton, An Upside to China's Air Pollution: More Snowfall in the Sierras
http://aquafornia.com/archives/62104
(This is the link http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/calwater/ referenced at the end of the article...I did not know this existed!)

Litigation News
Aquafornia.com
Pacific Legal Foundation
Continuing the Fight for Recreational Fishing
http://blog.pacificlegal.org/2012/continuing-the-fight-for-recreational-fishing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=continuing-the-fight-for-recreational-fishing

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development News

Events

Just For Fun
G. Edward Griffin
Unfiltered New
TheCHive.com Italian Ibex Climb Dam in Italy
http://thechive.com/2010/09/22/look-closer-4-photos/
(Guess they didn't read the No Trespassing sign!)

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