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.

Feinstein Jobs Bill Amendment Fact Sheet

Click HERE to download a PDF of a fact sheet on Senator Dianne Feinstein's emergency water supply amendment. The proposed amendment would provide a temporary 40 percent water supply to family farms from Patterson to Bakersfield while protecting fish and the integrity of the Endangered Species Act.

Click "Read more" below to view the text of the fact sheet.

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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