Items Tagged with 'voluntary agreements'

While the Newsom administration is backing a set of voluntary agreements over freshwater flows, the U.S. EPA is siding with environmentalists and wants to commit 40-60% of the water to fish.

State Water Board Member Tam Doduc believes the board will approve a Bay-Delta Plan that includes voluntary agreements with agricultural water interests.

A coalition has emerged around a complex and ambitious approach to bring water to the valley – one that could head off the worst effects of SGMA for farmers, the environment and communities.

Water policy expert Tim Quinn describes a breakdown in coalition building that began 20 years ago.

DWR Director Karla Nemeth made a case that the implementation of SGMA beginning this year will provide “agriculture with more certainty, even around surface water supplies.”

Senate Republican Leader Shannon Grove said the budget sets aside about $6.5 million “to pay for lawsuits so that the state of California can sue the Trump administration.”