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Freaky Weather & Water Loom
As Americans hunkered down through winter's showers, blizzards and blackouts, international scientists confirmed global warming as fact not fiction and a Bay Area think tank suggested that it was a mistake for water czars to think they can manage the droughts and floods of a warmer future the same way they have in the past ... »Read More

In This Issue

Bulletin Board
WATER PAID TO KEEP THE LIGHTS ON in California this spring. Under the Governor’s emergency order, $440 million promised in the 2000-01 budget ... »Read More

Retiring Land for Drainage Peace?
Could a settlement in the decades-long battle over responsibility for draining salty irrigation water from the western San Joaquin ... »Read More

Islands of Water
A long-discussed plan to turn two Delta islands into reservoirs got a crucial green light in February ... »Read More

Fragile Fragments
An effort to save dozens of tiny Delta islands before they are washed away by waves and boat wakes got a big boost in February ... »Read More

Liberty and Water for All
When a farm worker must quench her thirst with yellow, smelly water, or a poor fisherman deny his wife and kids a bite of his mercury-laced catch ... »Read More

Unpaving Paradise
For years, the downtown business district in the city of Martinez has flooded almost every other year ... »Read More

Delta Cross Channel Investigated
Last fall, the Delta Cross Channel was inundated, not by rain, but by boatloads of researchers armed with traps, sonar ... »Read More

Sites on the Horizon?
Plans to build a new off-stream water storage facility in Colusa County are moving closer to reality ... »Read More

Clear Creek Comeback
An ambitious restoration plan that uses one problem to fix another is underway on 2.5 miles of Clear Creek ... »Read More

Steelhead Strategies
One of the hot topics at the Salmonid Restoration Federation conference in Chico last month was not so much new science ... »Read More

Green Collar Workers at Richmond High
As spring moves into high gear, Richmond High's CreekKeepers — students learning about a variety of watershed issues ... »Read More


 
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