The always-alert Aquafornia blog posted an excellent summary of California’s snowpack woes.
The Reader’s Digest version? While Winter storms promised much, a dry spring means the Sierra snowpack has fallen far short of early expectations.
Faster than you can say "rationing," every major paper in the state jumped on the story.
From the Contra Costa Times:
California’s snowpack is […]

Dan Bacher does a beautiful job of summarizing a recent (and complex) legal ruling by Federal Judge Wagner denying a plan to export more water from the California Delta — even as salmon, steelhead, and other fish populations are in a state of collapse:
Federal judge Oliver Wanger today tossed out a controversial water plan that […]

If you follow the Underground, you know we’re smack in the middle of a battle to keep the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors (BOS) from approving a “Natural Resources Policy” that eliminates your legal right to fish the rivers in Siskiyou County — including the McCloud and Upper Sacramento.

This would be illegal if some have […]

UPDATE: You can sign an online petition (in seconds) that calls for Feinstein to put the brakes on this terrible water giveaway. Takes only a few seconds…
I haven’t made a secret of my antipathy for the Westlands irrigation district . They’re pushing to have Shasta Dam raised — flooding miles of the Upper Sac, […]

Via the always interesting Aquafornia blog comes an article that asks the question I’ve been asking myself for years: How many people can California’s water supply really support?

California’s Water Plan, prepared by the state Department of Water Resources and currently being updated, always seems to imply that our supply of water to support development is […]

With California (and most of the West) in the grips of a drought, the water wars are heating up; Irrigators want water, cities want water, endangered species like Salmon and the Delta Smelt need water. The Delta is one focal point of the water issue.

The restoration efforts on the Lower Owens River are underway, and the Underground turns to the just-discovered “aquafornia” water-issues blog for news. It’s good news on the Lower Owens — largemouth bass have been spotted — and our SoCal readers’ hearts must be bursting with joy.

In fact, Aquafornia is a treasure trove of information about […]

The endangered Delta Smelt is fast disappearing into the massive water pumps which drain the California Delta. Despite ESA protection, can it be saved?