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Weekend Wrap-Up: Rim Fire; Legislation 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Welcome back! Here’s the weekend wrap-up: At the top of the scroll: Gov. Jerry Brown issued an emergency proclamation for the City and County of San Francisco due to the effects of the Rim Fire in Tuo...
Los Angeles, Conservationists Reach Agreement to Repair Mono Lake Damage 26 Aug 2013 | 08:59 pm
From the Los Angeles Times: “Ending decades of bitter disputes over fragile Mono Lake, Los Angeles and conservationists on Friday announced an agreement to heal the environmental damage caused by dive...
Galgiani’s Bill on Delta Water Loses Its Teeth 26 Aug 2013 | 08:58 pm
From the Stockton Record: “Legislation that would have forced water agencies to reduce their reliance on the fragile Delta – or risk losing out on state funding – has been significantly weakened. “Sen...
Yosemite Fire: San Francisco Water, Power Unaffected 26 Aug 2013 | 08:58 pm
From the Los Angeles Times: “Crews are continuing to inspect and repair two powers stations serving San Francisco that were damaged by the Rim fire. “The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission was ...
City of Sacramento Hires Public Affairs Firm to Battle Delta Tunnel Plan 26 Aug 2013 | 08:56 pm
From The Sacramento Bee: “Sacramento city officials are paying a high-powered political affairs firm $10,000 a month to communicate the city’s opposition to a plan to build two massive water diversion...
Is Safe Drinking Water in Rural Tulare County Emerging From Red Tape? 26 Aug 2013 | 08:56 pm
From The Fresno Bee: “Chris Kapheim, the head of Alta Irrigation District, worked a decade on getting fresh Kings River water for seven northern Tulare County towns where people fear their tainted tap...
Imperial Valley Farmers Put Water Conservation to Work 26 Aug 2013 | 08:56 pm
From the Imperial Valley Press: “There is no shortage of Imperial Valley farmers who oppose the Quantification Settlement Agreement, the nation’s largest agriculture to urban-area water transfer. “Man...
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: Aquafornia Water Word of the Week 26 Aug 2013 | 08:54 pm
Aquafornia’s Water Word of the Week from sister site Aquapedia is Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a topic very much in the news and one of the more comprehensively covered in the Water Education Foundat...
Former Fresno County Supervisor to Fight Water Rate Increase 26 Aug 2013 | 08:54 pm
From The Fresno Bee: “Former Fresno County supervisor-turned government watchdog Doug Vagim is fresh off a major role in defeating Measure G, the city of Fresno’s proposal to privatize its residential...
Mount Tamalpais Water Storage System to be Fortified Against Quakes 26 Aug 2013 | 08:53 pm
From the Marin Independent Journal: “The first stage of a plan is under way to spend $23 million to overhaul of parts of the Marin Municipal Water District water storage network on Mount Tamalpais to ...
