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Two-part billionaires and bonds article now in one PDF document
Submitted by lgc_admin on Tue, 08/16/2011 - 16:05. 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.
***MEDIA ADVISORY*** Water and Power Subcommittee to hold Fresno Field Hearing on the Man-Made Drought in California
Submitted by lgc_admin on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 15:15.
Pew report: Canada’s Boreal Houses World’s Largest Water Source
Submitted by lgc_admin on Wed, 03/16/2011 - 18:10.
$150 million cleanup tab for contaminated Drinking water in San Joaquin Valley
Submitted by lgc_admin on Wed, 03/16/2011 - 18:04.Westlands Water District says political appointees should decide Delta flows
Submitted by lgc_admin on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 12:38.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?
Submitted by lgc_admin on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 00:26.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
Submitted by lgc_admin on Tue, 10/05/2010 - 09:03.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!
MORE DOUBTS ABOUT THE DROUGHT
Submitted by lgc_admin on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 09:44.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?
Submitted by lgc_admin on Sun, 08/29/2010 - 10:27.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
Submitted by lgc_admin on Sun, 08/29/2010 - 10:23.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/
