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Thanks to Conservation Efforts, SoCal Definitely has Enough Water for Next 3 Years

/in /by /LAistby Julia Wick

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California announced Wednesday they will definitely have enough water to meet demands for the next three years, thanks to local conservation efforts. Nice work, everyone! We reached out to some of L.A.’s most notorious celebrity water wasters to see if any of them were to thank, but first, a little more on what this news actually means.

The Metropolitan Water District is basically where the people who give us our water (likely DWP, for most of you) get their water from.

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BLOG: Reducing Reliance on the Bay-Delta

/in /by /Water Deeply (New York)by Kate Poole

California’s drought  – or lack thereof, according to some  –  has made national headlines again, prompting suggestions from many quarters on whether we need to divert more or less water from the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary in response. Some of these suggestions reflect a basic understanding of California’s complex water system. Many don’t. But almost all of the recent debates seem to overlook one crucial and fundamental fact about California’s water future and the Bay-Delta ecosystem that serves as the switching yard for the state’s massive water projects: The state has already answered the question.

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Delta Smelt on the Brink

/in /by /San Francisco Chronicleby Peter Fimrite

The fight to save the delta smelt, the beleaguered fish at the center of an increasingly bitter tug-of-war over water rights in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, is as close to a lost cause as ever, but fisheries biologists vow to continue the struggle to protect the species.

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Fishery Decisions Could Help, Harm Water Supplies

/in /by /AgAlert (Sacramento)by Kate Campbell

Two developments in recent days outlined alternative strategies for protecting fish whose populations drive water-allocation decisions for much of California: A coalition of business and water groups petitioned the state to address a key predator of native fish, while members of Congress asked federal agencies not to force additional water-supply cutbacks on the species’ behalf.

The petition from the business/water coalition asks the California Fish and Game Commission to allow more fishing for the striped bass and black bass, non-native species that feed on endangered chinook salmon and delta smelt in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

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