California Farm Water Coalition

Californians face dwindling supplies of locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables and higher prices at the grocery store unless our elected leaders act NOW to fix our water supply system. Click HERE to find your legislator and tell them we need new reservoirs and canals for California’s future.

Governor Schwarzenegger held a press conference with Latino leaders on August 18 to tell legislators he wants a comprehensive water supply package of legislative bills to fix the state’s

water supply system. View highlights in the video at right.

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Irony?

Chinese carrots being distributed to unemployed farmworkers at a food line in California's Central Valley where they once worked to produce food for the world.

Judge issues temporary restraining order on pumping restrictions

Statement by Dan Nelson, Executive Director, San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority “The San Joaquin Valley secured a small measure of relief following a judge’s decision to allow an increase in pumping water to storage facilities south of the Delta during the next two weeks. The judge determined that no risk exists for salmon from the increased pumping.
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Federal Agencies' "Double Standard" on Fish Science Compels Call for Relief from ESA

Smelt Restrictions Could Prevent Storage
of Water Supplies from Current Storms

The public agency responsible for supplying water to more than a million acres of the Central Valley as well as 1.8 million people in the Bay Area today called on California's senior Senator Diane Feinstein and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to proceed immediately with legislation to lift some of the constraints on California's water system that have been imposed under the federal Endangered Species Act.