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Tag: Folsom Dam

Newsom Administration Wasted So Much Water, Oroville Just Ran Out

August 6, 2021   7:57 amAugust 6, 2021   7:59 am
Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale), Senator Jim Nielsen (R-Gerber), and Assemblyman James Gallagher (R-Marysville) met this week at the top of the Oroville Dam to decry Governor Gavin Newsom’s “lack of leadership and gross mismanagement of the state’s water, power and...
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Why is a Wisconsin Prof Using Beijing Research to Push Water Snitching in California?

July 12, 2021   2:55 amJuly 13, 2021   6:21 am
Residents of Sacramento seemed to be particularly enthusiastic about snitching on water wasters, according to a recent study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Sacramento Bee published an article last week encouraging Sacramento residents to rat-out neighbors for “wasting” water...
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Blaming Almonds for California’s Water Shortage is Just Nuts

June 21, 2021   8:11 amJune 24, 2021   6:38 am
“California can learn much from Israel on how to conserve water, manage drought better,” an op ed in Sunday’s Sacramento Bee said. At first blush, yes, California can learn a great deal about water management from the Israelis. They turned...
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California Drought Response: Water Board Cuts Off Water to Thousands of Farms

June 17, 2021   7:01 amJune 17, 2021   7:01 am
The California State Water Resources Control Board announced that thousands of farmers in the Central Valley up to the Oregon Border will have their water curtailed until winter, the Globe reported Wednesday. The order “targets 4,300 ‘junior’ water rights holders...
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Facing Dry Year, CA State Water Board is Draining California’s Folsom Lake Reservoir

May 24, 2021   2:15 amMay 25, 2021   10:56 am
Following the Globe article Friday about the state draining reservoirs even with the dry year California is facing, we noted that California’s largest reservoirs less than two years ago were absolutely teeming with water from 107% to 145% of average....
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Why Do Californians Have to Choose Between Food, Agriculture, and Fish?

May 6, 2021   8:34 amMay 7, 2021   3:46 pm
The long time political dispute between California farmers and state and federal water regulators predates the latest drought and will continue long after, unless some political honesty takes place. Most of the media and public officials paint California farmers and...
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California House Republicans Urge Natural Resources Committee Action on California Drought

April 28, 2021   3:59 pm
Last week, while standing in a dried out bed on Lake Mendocino, Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a drought emergency… but not for the entire state of California as expected. Newsom only declared a drought emergency for two Northern California counties...
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