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EDITORIAL: Trump’s latest Interior Department Pick is Bursting with Conflicts of Interest and Alternative Facts

/in /by /Los Angeles Times

So many of President Trump’s Cabinet appointments have been so alarming that nominations to posts further down in the pecking order might seem a bit anticlimactic. What’s the use of getting worked up over subordinate positions? There has got to be a point at which consternation over the president’s choices yields to exhaustion. And then comes a nominee like David Bernhardt, Trump’s pick for deputy secretary of the Interior.

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Trump Provides California Water Solutions as Gov. Brown Focuses on his Legacy

/in /by /Fox and Hounds Dailyby Aubrey Bettencourt

On May 13, 2017, Governor Brown outlined his revised budget proposal focusing the state’s financial resources on his High Speed Rail legacy project and renewing its efforts to fight the Trump Administration on multiple fronts. While he may have dropped the mic with an antagonistic $183 billion budget, points on the scorecard went to the Trump Administration that day. As Governor Brown unveiled his budget, Interior Secretary Zinke authorized grants awarding California $21 million for the state’s “planning, designing and constructing water recycling and reuse projects; developing feasibility studies; and researching desalination and water recycling projects.”

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City Hall Flooded with Complaints Over SF’s New Mixed Drinking Water

/in /by /San Francisco Examiner

Complaints are flooding City Hall as word spreads that San Francisco’s beloved Hetch Hetchy drinking water is being mixed with less pristine groundwater. So many, in fact, that Supervisor Norman Yee was compelled to call Wednesday’s hearing to ask the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to address the myriad of concerns, from the safety of the water to the need for the change.

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Grand Jury Finds Cities Under-Prepared for Another Major Water Emergency

/in /by /Thousand Oaks Acornby Hector Gonzalez

Ventura County may have survived the worst of the state’s drought, but if a severe dry spell returns and lasts more than five years, most local cities will be back in serious trouble. That’s the finding of a report issued this week by the Ventura County grand jury that evaluated plans of the county’s 10 cities to see whether local officials have adequately addressed their water needs now and in the future. Several cities, according to the report, rely too much on imported water and haven’t developed plans for an emergency water shortage.

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Oroville Dam: Spillway’s Bottom Being Demolished for Replacement

/in /by /The Mercury News‎

The emergency is over, the construction now begins. Demolitions are going to increase, the bottom of the broken spillway will be taken out, two concrete-creating factories are being built and new concrete will be laid beginning in mid-June. The Department of Water Resources gave an update Wednesday in a media conference call on the construction phase at the spillway that began May 13 when the emergency officially ended.

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