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Environmental Groups Across California Oppose Legislative Water Package

Dan Bacher, AlterNet. October 30, 2009.

Today environmental groups from around California weighed in with their opposition to the dangerous proposed water legislation.

Governor Schwarzenegger Holds California Hostage to Peripheral Canal Water Bond

Dan Bacher, AlterNet. October 9, 2009.

Schwarzenegger said he wants a water bill package including a peripheral canal and dams on his desk by Friday night before he will act on 700 bills awaiting his signature.

Dammed Crazy: What Do California's Water Woes Teach Us?

Lori Pottinger, Huffington Post. October 7, 2009.

The world has long looked to California's massively engineered water system as "advanced" and worth emulating. It may be time to rethink that.

Push for Peripheral Canal in California Ignites Grassroots Uprising

Dan Bacher, AlterNet. September 10, 2009.

A grassroots uprising has ignited to stop a mad rush to build a peripheral canal without regard for many Northern California and Delta constituents.

Why Does California Keep Looking to More Techno-Fixes for Drought?

Robert Glennon, Huffington Post. May 18, 2009.

If the money needed for these hugely expensive proposals were used to fund conservation and reuse projects, the water shortage problem would be fixed.