1.18.24: AquAlliance spent significant time submitting comments on the draft Staff Report/Supplemental Environmental Document (“SED”) for the Water Quality Control Plan for the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary (“Plan”). The State Water Resources Control Board’s plan seeks to curtail … Continue reading
1.17.24: AquAlliance, other NGOs, and a few local governments succeeded in a challenge to the funding of the Newsom Administration’s One Tunnel project. This is a huge victory. The California Dept. of Water Resources (DWR) tried to issue bonds to … Continue reading
AquAlliance Executive Director Barbara Vlamiswas quoted in the Los Angeles Times (Dec. 2, 2023): See the full article by Staff Writer Ian James in the Los Angeles Times Vlamis argued the area’s current overuse of groundwater, which is not as … Continue reading
Long History of Planning to Manipulate Tuscan Aquifer for Profit In 2011 the Glenn Colusa Irrigation District’s study (funded by DWR and USBR) described how the Tuscan Aquifer should be exercised aggressively to meet California-wide water demand through … Continue reading
Friday March 10, 2023: On Wednesday, AquAlliance and a coalition warned the State of California about potential litigation if it didn’t reverse its negligent and illegal activity to accelerate the private takeover of common groundwater basins and lay waste to struggling … Continue reading
The Delta Tunnel: Still Not a 21st Century Water Strategy. The state is now making a third attempt since 2008 to build a massive, multi-billion, ratepayer-funded Delta Conveyance Project (a.k.a. Delta Tunnel) to supposedly “modernize” water transport infrastructure in the … Continue reading
AquAlliance received fantastic news in the last week from three different judges in Colusa and Butte counties who agreed that our three challenges to Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSPs) were legitimate. The defendants claimed our lawsuits inappropriately used a “reverse validation action” to … Continue reading
5 May 2022 The Butte, Colusa, Tehama, and Vina Groundwater Sustainability plans make it clear that groundwater exploitation is planned and accepted in the counties of Butte, Colusa, Glenn, and Tehama. The Plans accept the dewatering of up to 20 … Continue reading
By Seth Borenstein – February 14, 2022 Click this link to view the photo with the article at the AP News website. The American West’s megadrought deepened so much last year that it is now the driest in at … Continue reading
by Dan BacherSeptember 05, 2021 Chico, CA. — On August 26, three environmental groups filed a lawsuit in federal District Court challenging the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation over extra groundwater pumping plans by Sacramento River water districts that … Continue reading
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