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Tag: California Aqueduct

Ringside: California’s Plans for Energy and Water Can be Misleading

May 20, 2026   4:53 pmMay 20, 2026   4:53 pm
When Governor Gavin Newsom’s water plan calls for nine million acre feet of new water supply, it turns out part of that total is increased storage capacity in reservoirs, which will not result in an equivalent amount of available water....
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Ringside: When it Comes to Water, California Needs to Think Big Again

May 14, 2026   6:00 amMay 14, 2026   6:01 am
For most of the previous century, Californians successfully designed and built big water infrastructure. In sixty years, from 1910 through 1970, we built the most impressive system of interbasin transfers in the world. The Los Angeles Aqueduct, Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct,...
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Ringside: The Many Benefits of Dredging the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

March 19, 2026   12:00 pmMarch 19, 2026   12:01 pm
The salmon decline in the delta has been attributed to the impact of water withdrawals into the California Aqueduct and the Delta Mendota Canal. But something else happened at the same time as the pumps were began operating; dredging in...
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Governor Newsom: Turn Up the Delta Pumps!

February 11, 2026   6:29 amFebruary 11, 2026   6:29 am
When it comes to the water supply in California for cities and farms, nothing matters more than how we manage the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. As of 2/09 we were 132 days into the 2025-26 rainfall season which began on 10/01/2025....
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Ringside: Reversing California’s Policies of Scarcity

January 8, 2026   3:55 amJanuary 8, 2026   3:56 am
A new year has begun, and here in California, 2026 promises to deliver challenges that may at last transform the state’s energy and water policies. Let’s begin with a quick look at California’s current water policies in action. The last month...
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Ringside: Will the Delta Pumps Operate at Capacity this Winter?

December 18, 2025   2:55 amDecember 18, 2025   2:56 am
With another series of drenching storms about to hit California, now is a good time to ask what has become a perennial question: why can’t we harvest more of this massive runoff and reserve it for our farms and cities?...
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Ringside: Politically Viable Water Supply Projects

November 27, 2025   6:30 amNovember 27, 2025   6:31 am
A few years ago I was involved in an effort to qualify a ballot initiative, the “Water Infrastructure Funding Act.” While we failed to gather sufficient signatures to get it onto the November 2022 state ballot, if it had been...
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