This morning, as I do every other week, I picked fruit with Village Harvest. We pick fruit from backyard trees and small local orchards, and distribute it to the needy via local food pantries, meal programs, and community service agencies. This morning. we were lucky to have with us students from Pinewood School in Los […]
Senator Joe Simitian’s bill to get moving on “alternative conveyance” (remember what that means?) was shelved today, according to the Sacramento Bee. Assemblymember Lois Wolk is quoted as saying:
“We don’t know what will fix this yet … so to leap to the conclusion that it is a conveyance facility and to focus attention on that […]
The task force for the new San José master plan met tonight at City Hall. On the agenda was water: water quality, water supply and floodplain management. The City’s Environmental Services Department gave an excellent presentation on watershed protection, then followed basically the same presentation on water supply as I saw at Thursday’s joint City-District […]
Today’s Merc has a very brief article about Thursday’s joint meeting between the SCVWD Board and the San José City Council. Mostly it dwells on Mayor Reed’s opening remarks about the fragility of the Delta. Nice that they’re paying attention.
Aquafornia is an excellent water blog. I especially recommend this masterly summary of California’s water situation.
And the Mercury (really the AP)
Last week, The Fresno Bee reported that farm organizations are split over Proposition 98, just one of the eminent-domain-reforming measures on the June 3 ballot.
At issue is a single paragraph that would prohibit government from taking private land for the “consumption of natural resources.” The language is meant to keep cities from taking water […]
This morning saw a joint meeting between the SCVWD Board and the San José City Council. The study session dealt with three issues: water supply, water conservation and recycling. The presentation is available here.
It was a very heartening meeting. All of the participants were engaged and cooperative. The council members wanted to be sure that […]
Despite the fact that the amended District Act was recently passed 7-0 in the Assembly Local Government Committee, Scott Herhold is trying to keep the issue alive in today’s column in the Merc.
I’d much prefer it without all of the “teenager-kegger” sniggers. The County oversight of the District was mostly theoretical, anyway; it’s not as […]
This is the third time I’ve seen the groundwater charge presentation, and I keep coming back to the chart of the projected increases. Here it is again:
How many entities feel confident enough to get up and say “You’re going to be paying almost 10% more per year, every year, into the foreseeable future”? I can’t […]