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Two-part billionaires and bonds article now in one PDF document

 Editor's Note:
Due to popular request, the two-part series on billionaires and bonds has
been combined into one downloadable document that can be easily forwarded
via email or printed out for leisurely reading.

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***MEDIA ADVISORY*** Water and Power Subcommittee to hold Fresno Field Hearing on the Man-Made Drought in California

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jill Strait, Spencer Pederson, Crystal Feldman Monday, March 21, 2011 202-226-9019
 
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Monday, April 11, 2011 the House Natural Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Water and Power will hold a field hearing in Fresno, California on “Creating Jobs by Overcoming Man-Made Drought: Time for Congress to Listen and Act.”
The hearing will examine federal government policies that have created and contributed to California’s man-made drought and the actions needed to supply the San Joaquin Valley with water to put thousands back to work, feed the nation and grow the economy.
“Just like my home state of Washington, a large portion of California’s economy is dependent on a steady and reliable water supply. Over the last few years, government bureaucrats have greatly restricted the water supply to the California farms that help feed our country,” said Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04). “It is inexcusable for thousands to be without work and hundreds of thousands of fertile farm acres to sit fallow. This hearing gives us an opportunity to hear directly from Valley growers and farm workers who have been on the brink of losing their livelihoods due to the government’s man-made drought.”

Pew report: Canada’s Boreal Houses World’s Largest Water Source

Top scientists call boreal protection a global priority
 
 
OTTAWA (March 16, 2011) —A first of its kind report by the Pew Environment Group reveals that Canada’s boreal, the world’s largest intact forest and on-land carbon storehouse, contains more unfrozen freshwater than any other ecosystem. As United Nations’ International Year of Forests and World Water Day coincide, world leaders are grappling with water scarcity and pollution – and scientists are calling boreal protection a top global priority.
 
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$150 million cleanup tab for contaminated Drinking water in San Joaquin Valley

The Pacific Institute  says in a new report (http://www.pacinst.org/reports/nitrate_contamination/)  it could cost $150 million to clean up contaminated groundwater
To make it safe for drinking in low income communities in the agricultural San Joaquin Valley.

Westlands Water District says political appointees should decide Delta flows

By Dan Bacher 

Fishermen, conservationists, Delta farmers, Indian Tribal members, environmentalists and elected leaders from diverse political perspectives have slammed Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) process over the past four years for being a thinly disguised plan to build a peripheral canal to export more water from the California Delta to agribusiness and southern California.   READ MORE »

Westlands “badlands” need to go out of production?

The Environmental Working Group ( http://www.EWG.org ) has sent a letter to the Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation stating a lot more selenium-tainted lands in the Westlands Water District need to be retired from irrigation. Read that informative letter by clicking here.

California Budget Impasse

Budget Delays Costing Californians an Estimated $4 Billion, as Officials Sanction the Dumping of Trainloads of Toxic Substances into the San Joaquin River and the Bay-Delta Estuary. Meanwhile Billions of Dollars are Being Drained Out of the State’s Deficit-Ridden General Fund to “Restore” the Polluted River and Bay-Delta Estuary that Resulted from a Government-Induced Toxic Drainage Crisis!

To learn more click here.

MORE DOUBTS ABOUT THE DROUGHT

USDA Figures show 2009, the so-called third year of drought in California, was the third highest yield of farm cash receipts in history

By Patrick Porgans

 

Figures obtained from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday, August 31, 2010, show the Golden State’s agricultural earnings have reached historic highs during the so-called three-year drought.  READ MORE »

NEW OPERATOR FOR STATE WATER PROJECT?

The largest state-owned water-delivery project in America should be removed from the California agency that runs it and placed under another authority as part of a shake-up in how the state's water system is run, according to a report from a state watchdog agency. To learn more CLICK HERE:

http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_15906880?source=rss

Kern County oil industry consumes a staggering amount of water

According to a recent article at the Circle of Blue website, Kern County, known for its agricultural production, still accounts for 10 percent of US oil production but consumes a staggering volume of water. According to the California Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources, Kern County oil companies injected 54.6 billion gallons of water and steam into the ground in order to produce 162 million barrels of oil a year. The United States Geological Survey estimates that the life cycle requirements of extracting, transporting and refining a single barrel of oil - which yields over 40 gallons of various petroleum products - requires 1,850 gallons of water. And all that water used by Kern oil companies to extract 550,000 barrels of crude oil a day comes from the same source that farmers get it: California's network of irrigation projects.
To learn more CLICK HERE:
http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2010/world/california-drought-is-no-problem-for-kern-county-oil-producers/
 

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