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	<title>Aquafornia &#187; Delta Issues</title>
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		<title>Tracy: Council wades into water matters</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61659</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Tracy Press: &#8220;The City Council has unanimously approved an experimental underground water storage program and contracts that entitle the city to water from the Delta-Mendota Canal. The vote passed during the council’s Tuesday, Feb. 7, meeting — which was primarily dominated by discussions about sustainable water sources for Tracy. Both the project and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental Water Caucus: A realistic plan for the Delta</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61608</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Environmental Water Caucus, this press release: &#8220;In late 2009, the legislature created the Delta Reform Act which established a suite of requirements and basic goals for the Sacramento-San Joaquin-San Francisco Bay Delta. These included a more reliable water supply for California, protecting, restoring and enhancing the Delta ecosystem, and developing a legally enforceable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: ACWA&#8217;s propaganda effort tries to convince public to pay more for Delta infrastructure/canal</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61605</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Burt Wilson at the Public Water News Service, this commentary: &#8220;I ventured into a recent public meeting of the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) at their Sacramento Headquarters to see what was going on. I expected to hear their views on the financing of the coming Water Bill. Instead, I listened in awe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alex Breitler&#8217;s blog: Defending the Delta Plan</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61513</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61513#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Alex Breitler&#8217;s blog: &#8220;Patrick Johnston was in an interesting spot Monday night. Speaking before many of his own friends and acquaintances, the longtime Stockton resident and member of the Delta Stewardship Council defended a new plan for the estuary — a plan that doesn’t get a lot of love around here. Johnston spoke before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watchdog blog: Disinformation floods delta water war in California</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61511</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61511#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Watchdog blog: &#8220;Ready for another phantom “drought”? The National Resources Defense Council is. The NRDC’s bogus Delta Smelt lawsuit brought the court-ordered “drought” from 2007 to 2010. Now the NRDC is launching a disinformation campaign to divert the public’s attention from the bigger water issues of the Sacramento Delta. On Sept. 16, 2012, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can the California delta smelt survive our demand for water?</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61483</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From News10: &#8220;When the federal government considers protections for threatened plants and animals, the Endangered Species Act requires that economic consequences for humans stay out of the equation. But as the law nears its 40th anniversary, some wonder how much longer that tenet can withstand growing demand for land, water and other resources. While the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doug Obegi: Myths and facts about California&#8217;s Bay-Delta Estuary &#8211; a follow-up to yesterday&#8217;s commentary</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61464</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Doug Obegi at the NRDC Switchboard blog: &#8220;We all know that our water comes out of the tap, but do we know how it got there? Many of us who work on California’s water issues weren’t surprised to learn that recent polling data released last week showed that the majority of Californian’s don’t know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: Dancing with disaster in the state Delta</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61462</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Santa Clarita Signal, this commentary by Tom Campbell, president of the Castaic Lake Water Agency Board of Directors: &#8220;Suppose your home has old, galvanized steel pipes that are starting to leak. What do you do? You re-pipe the house, of course — planning ahead to avoid a catastrophic failure. You do the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This just in &#8230; Doug Obegi on California&#8217;s water myths and facts</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61421</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t know how I missed this earlier (thank you, BD) &#8230; From the San Francisco Chronicle, this commentary by Doug Obegi: &#8220;Over the past decade, fishermen, farmers, politicians and conservation groups have struggled over trying to balance how much water can be diverted from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta estuary with how best to protect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Strengthening Delta levees critical to economy</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61414</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Sacramento Business Journal: &#8220;Strengthening the levees of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is critical to the economic sustainability of the Delta and regional economy, a plan recently approved by the Delta Protection Commission concluded. The Economic Sustainability Plan, approved Jan. 26, also found that seismic improvements near lowland Delta levees and vegetation on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Randy Fiorini: Nostalgic trip down Delta drifts too far from the facts</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61375</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Stockton Record, this commentary by Randy Fiorini, vice-chairman of the Delta Stewardship Council: &#8220;Ah, the good old days! They always look better, if slightly out of focus, in the rear-view mirror. San Joaquin County supervisors Larry Ruhstahler and Ken Vogel&#8217;s recent nostalgic comparison of the Delta 50 to 100 years ago with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Fitzgerald: Solving the Delta&#8217;s identity crisis</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61373</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61373#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From columnist Michael Fitzgerald at the Stockton Record: &#8220;In the latest installment of &#8220;Invisible Valley,&#8221; the saga of a region nobody pays attention to, a survey shows 78 percent of Californians don&#8217;t know what the Delta is. Or where it is. Or who it is. Mind-boggling. Seventy-eight percent of the lotus-eaters in this state haven&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Lubell&#8217;s blog: Most people in California are clueless on the Delta</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61369</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61369#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Mark Lubell&#8217;s blog (from UC Davis Center for Environmental Policy and Behavior): &#8220;Well, I&#8217;m stuck on a 7 hour layover at the Houston airport, en route back to California after giving talks on water governance at both Duke and University of Michigan. Both of these were very fun visits. So, after reviewing an interesting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restore the Delta on the Delta Plan: Ambitious document, serious flaws</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61348</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61348#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Restore the Delta&#8217;s blog: &#8220;The big news this week with the Delta Stewardship Council (DSC) is that everyone who wants to comment on the 2,000-and-some page Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the Draft Delta Plan has until February 2 to do it. Restore the Delta has commented in detail on some portions of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alex Breitler&#8217;s blog with more on the striped bass saga</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61346</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61346#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Alex Breitler&#8217;s blog: &#8220;It was Jim Kellogg’s last meeting as president of the California Fish and Game Commission. He took advantage. “Nobody’s got an answer on how this is done, or who declares it, so I’m going to declare the striped bass a native species of the state of California,” he said. And a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain Counties Water Resources Association submits comments on Delta Stewardship Council’s Draft EIR</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61294</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61294#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Mountain Counties Water Resources Association: &#8220;Meeting the February 2, 2012 deadline for comments to the Delta Stewardship’s Draft Environmental Impact Report, the Association along with several members submit comments expressing serious concerns with the 5th Draft Delta Plan.&#8221; You can read their comment letter here.]]></description>
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		<title>Fresno Bee News Blog: To the 22% who know what the delta is, I feel your pain; plus Alex Breitler with the link to the actual study</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61281</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61281#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Fresno Bee News Blog: &#8220;I must have read four stories about the survey released this week showing 78% of Californians had no idea what the delta is. That&#8217;s the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta &#8212; in Northern California where the state&#8217;s two longest rivers meet and pour out to the Pacific Ocean. It&#8217;s the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delta Conservancy issues first newsletter</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61263</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Delta Conservancy has started a newsletter. You can read the first issue here.]]></description>
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		<title>Sandhill cranes bring their trumpet and dance to the Delta each winter</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61247</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Silicon Valley Mercury News: &#8220;Jesse Roseman, a nature preserve manager, stalks along a pond in search of a very big and rare bird that evolved wading in the primordial ooze that once covered much of the Central Valley. &#8220;Listen. Their sound is not like any other bird,&#8221; Roseman says as he hears the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California&#8217;s best-kept secret? Statewide survey finds 78 percent clueless about Delta</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61211</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61211#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Stockton Record: &#8220;Nearly four out of five Californians do not know what the Delta is, despite the fact that the estuary of 1,000 square miles provides drinking water for cities from San Jose to San Diego. Asked in a new statewide poll to share what, if anything, they know about the Delta, 585 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delta&#8217;s Economic Sustainability Plan determines strengthening levees is critical to economic sustainability in the Delta; Seismic levee upgrades are lowest cost strategy for water supply reliability</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61207</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the University of the Pacific Eberhardt School of Business and the Delta Protection Commission: &#8220;The Delta Protection Commission approved the Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP) for the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, which concluded that strengthening Delta levees is critical to economic sustainability for the Delta and regional economy. The study also found that seismic improvements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACWA submits comments on draft Program EIR for draft Delta Plan</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61205</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61205#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From ACWA&#8217;s Water News: &#8220;In comments submitted today on the Draft Program Environmental Impact Report for the fifth draft Delta Plan, ACWA expressed serious concern with the direction of the Delta Stewardship Council has taken to achieve the coequal goals in the Delta. Acting on behalf of the Ag-Urban II Coalition, a diverse group of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visalia Times-Delta editorial: Ignorance of Delta bodes ill for state&#8217;s water</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61199</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61199#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Visalia Times-Delta, this editorial: &#8220;Most Californians aren&#8217;t aware of the role the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta plays in the state&#8217;s water supply. In fact, most Californians don&#8217;t even know what the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta is, according to poll results released by California public opinion research firm Probolsky Research at the Southern California Water Committee&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valley Economy blog: Economic benefit-cost analysis vs. financial feasibility analysis: Clear definitions needed for BDCP discussions</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61197</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61197#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Valley Economy blog: &#8220;As an economist, it was painful to sit at the Delta Protection Commission meeting last week and listen to Jerry Meral&#8217;s five minute answer to a question about benefit-cost analysis and the BDCP. My understanding is that there have been similar exchanges at various meetings. The problem isn&#8217;t just his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delta Stewardship Council: The new Sherman’s March, says commentary</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61140</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Manteca Bulletin, this commentary by managing editor, Dennis Wyatt: &#8220;“The Delta Stewardship Council is the Coastal Commission on steroids.” &#8211; Assemblyman Bill Berryhill The natives, as they say, are getting restless. And it is all due to a growing uneasiness about a mutant super-strain of government that the California Legislature created because they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Spigot blog: California Delta as a National Heritage Area could help save its people</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61138</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61138#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the California Spigot blog: &#8220;Many people have their eyes fixed on the Delta’s natural resources: its water, its imperiled fish and the 750 or so species that live there or use it seasonally, like sandhill cranes. But there is another species that has lived in the Delta for 10,000 years. That would be human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Southern California Water Committee: Californians largely unaware of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61134</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61134#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Southern California Water Committee: &#8220;The majority of Californians have never heard of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta), according to poll results released by California public opinion research firm Probolsky Research at the Southern California Water Committee’s January 27 Quarterly Meeting. While the Delta is the core of California’s water delivery system, as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberty Blog: X2 Ninth Circuit briefing completed (for now)</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61097</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61097#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Pacific Legal Foundation&#8217;s Liberty Blog: &#8220;Last week, the Coalition for a Sustainable Delta, Kern County Water Agency, State Water Contractors, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, San Luis &#038; Delta-Mendota Water Authority, and Westlands Water District filed this reply to the Natural Resources Defense Council’s opposition to the water users’ motion to dismiss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restore the Delta&#8217;s blog reports from the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan meeting</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61095</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61095#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Restore the Delta&#8217;s blog: &#8220;The 3-hour January 25 Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) public meeting was devoted to presentations on eight chapters of the BDCP draft by consultants ICF International. Most of the time was spent on appendices to the chapter that analyze biological effects of the plan, and on public comments and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: Delta over-pumping 2000 to 2006 caused Delta to be &#8220;in crisis&#8221; today</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61093</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61093#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Burt Wilson at the Public Water News Service (a blog, of sorts, but not really): &#8220;What the water agencies do not want to let the people in on is that the Dept. of Water Resources (DWR) allowed the Delta to be over-pumped from 2000 to 2006 in order to allow the Metropolitan Water District [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No need to fast-track latest attempt at canal, says the San Francisco Chronicle</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61062</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61062#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Francisco Chronicle, this editorial: &#8220;While most of the political chatter following Gov. Jerry Brown&#8217;s State of the State address last week focused on high-speed rail and his proposed tax initiative, the big issue quietly lapping the Capitol halls is water. The state faces two deadlines in the next few months: approval of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday&#8217;s top of the scroll: Senator Lois Wolk continues to fight for Delta rights</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61026</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61026#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the River News-Herald and Isleton Journal: &#8220;Up for reelection in 2012, State Senator Lois Wolk continues to fight for Delta representation and equality within the legislature. The senator has a busy 2012 ahead, with several main goals and focuses to improve the fifth district she calls home. Wolk’s main focuses includes working on legislation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peripheral canal proposal, loss of home rule prompts SSJID to join battle against the Delta Stewardship Council</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61024</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61024#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Manteca Bulletin: &#8220;A coalition of cities, counties and other organizations worried about the perceived far-reaching political power of the Delta Stewardship Council are banding together to fight for preservation of home rule. And they now have the South San Joaquin Irrigation District on board. The SSJID board unanimously approved a resolution this week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delta National Park blog: The other, still equal goal</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61018</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61018#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Delta National Park blog: &#8220;We may from time to time forget that SB 7X 1 has teeth, and includes “protecting and restoring the health of the Delta estuary, and its native fisheries” language as a co-equal goal of the legislation. And the implications of those teeth are starting to come into focus. Via [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metropolitan Water District on the Delta Plan</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60982</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60982#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what does Metropolitan think of the Delta Plan? It&#8217;s all outlined in this report to be presented at February 14th board meeting. Here is an excerpt: &#8221; &#8230; the draft EIR states that the “no project” alternative, which is meant to analyze what will happen if no plan moves forward—in other words, the status [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dan Bacher: Delta group blasts canal plan as &#8216;Brown legacy, green disaster&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60986</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60986#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Dan Bacher at IndyBay.org: &#8220;In his State of the State address on January 18, Governor Jerry Brown confirmed what everybody knew anyway: the construction of conveyance (a peripheral canal or tunnel) to export more Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta water to corporate agribusiness and southern California is a huge priority for him. &#8220;Last week, Secretary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday&#8217;s top of the scroll: Placer water agency concerned about impact of Delta plan: More water to flush Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta could mean less for Placer County</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60954</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60954#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings! I&#8217;ve updated the site a little earlier than usual as I&#8217;m headed downtown to UCLA&#8217;s Future of Water in Southern California where I&#8217;ll be tweeting live from the conference all day. You can follow my tweets here: https://twitter.com/#!/Aquafornia If you&#8217;re attending, find me and say hi! And now this from the Auburn Journal: &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Delta Caucus and current Delta initiatives</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60932</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Joaquin Farm Bureau Federation: &#8220;The five county Farm Bureaus of the Delta (Contra Costa, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Solano and Yolo) have been working together since 2008, when we formed the Farm Bureau Delta Caucus to better leverage our limited resources to uphold core Farm Bureau values and policies. The caucus has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delta Stewardship Council appoints new lead scientist; Dr. Peter Goodwin is internationally recognized expert in ecohydraulics</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60930</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60930#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Delta Stewardship Council, this press release: &#8220;Dr. Peter Goodwin, an internationally-recognized expert in ecohydraulics (the impact of management on aquatic ecosystems), ecosystem restoration, and enhancement of river, wetland and estuarine systems is the new Lead Scientist for the Delta Science Program. In making the two-year appointment, DSC Chair Phil Isenberg said, “With his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next congressman could be caught in the middle, says the Tracy Press</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60957</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Tracy Press, this editorial: &#8220;It looks like Tracy’s next congressman will have to pick a side in the Central Valley’s version of North versus South. The North is San Joaquin County and above, and the South is the West Side of Stanislaus County and below. The North relies on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta [...]]]></description>
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