(07-23) 16:57 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge in Fresno ordered state and federal water regulators Wednesday to come up with an interim plan by the end

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today participated in a press conference hosted by the Latino Water Coalition to discuss the urgent need for comprehensive water reform that increases storage, improves conveyance, protects the Delta's ecosystem and promotes greater water conservation.
"Water is important to everything we care about in California-to our economy, our agriculture, our jobs, our families, our environment and our future-but we have fallen far behind," Governor Schwarzenegger said. "With a drought, court-ordered water restrictions, an increasing population, and agricultural fields being left fallow because of inadequate water, passing a comprehensive water plan

SAN FRANCISCO - July 23 - California’s salmon are teetering on the edge of extinction and the salmon fishing industry is facing economic devastation, but a report released today establishes a framework to help address this crisis. The report concludes that providing a more reliable water supply for the San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary could help save fish, including salmon, while also helping to ensure adequate water for farms, cities, and the 25 million Californians who rely on the Bay-Delta’s water.
The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) report is titled “Finding the Balance: A Vision for Water Supply and Environmental Reliability in California.” The report outlines steps

AP FRESNO, Calif.—A federal judge says California water managers need to redo their plans to ensure the state's pumping systems don't push native,

by Dan Bacher Conservationists, fishermen and a representative from Scoma’s will hold a press conference at Scoma’s Restaurant at Pier 47 at Fisherman’s

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and US Senator Dianne Feinstein has proposed a compromise plan to the Legislature to update California's water system by

Talk of a peripheral canal that would re-route Sacramento River water around Delta waterways is back, but we need to know more before we can weigh in. Press file photo.
An influential public policy group has just released a report that says California should no longer draw water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to supply water to most of the state — and that we should build a canal to pipe Sacramento River water around the Delta to the head of the California Aqueduct near Tracy.
hrough the troubled estuary’s maze of levees is risky and costly, and that fortifying the Delta’s 74 islands would be a waste of taxpayer money. The authors conclude that an “isolated conveyance”

I can't prove it, but I'd be willing to bet that the delta formed by the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers is not exactly top of mind for most Californians, if they know about it at all. The marshy triangle south of Sacramento is home to relatively few people. And while thousands drive past it every day on Interstate 5, and houseboaters and fishermen ply its waters on weekends, the delta and its bleak future have made a better topic for policy geeks than dinner table conversation.
But that might soon be changing.
hat commercial salmon fishing has been banned along most of the West Coast.

By Kate Campbell The California water crisis has stimulated a cascade of proposals from political leaders, think tanks and state agencies,

A team of researchers with impeccable credentials is uttering an inconvenient truth that California and its politicians have ignored for much too long: A peripheral canal is the least expensive, most environmentally positive way to repair the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta while maintaining vital water supplies.
The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) assembled the team and released its 184-page report Thursday, quite likely the most important paper PPIC has published in its 14-year history.
t Delta fix, but pulled off. While shedding public tears over the Delta's plight, they have been willing to sacrifice its environmental health for their other agenda.

By Peter H. King, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer BYRON, CALIF. - Here is where the straws tap into the common pool of California water, where consequence begins. Here, on the backside of the Diablo Mountains, amid a landscape of bleached-out pastures, wind farms and transmission lines, the two-lane Byron Highway crosses the concrete headwaters of two canals.
The first is the California Aqueduct, main artery of the State Water Project, which propels delta water on a 444-mile beeline to Southern California. Two miles down the road the Delta-Mendota Canal also has its fountainhead, feeding the federal Central Valley Project -- an audacious rewrite of nature designed, as the