This database contains press and video clips on water issues of interest to the San Diego County Water Authority.

November 1, 2011

VoiceofSanDiego.org

Investors Emerge in Baja Water Deal
By Rob Davis

California is moving at breakneck speed on a plan to build what could be huge tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to carry water from Northern California to Southern California and the Central Valley.

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Imperial Valley Press

Imperial Irrigation District to discuss water transfer finance, storing water in Lake Mead
By Elizabeth Zarin

The Imperial Irrigation District is set to look at options should the nation’s largest agriculture-to-urban water transfer dry up.

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The Reporter.com

Editorial: Pay-to-play planning in Delta
Result of being broke

No one can argue with the assertion by Rep. George Miller, D-Solano, that the process of mapping the Delta's future is becoming a "pay-to-play" procedure over which water agencies in Central and Southern California have more influence than do people who live around the linchpin of California's water supply.

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Las Vegas Sun

Letter to the editor: Let’s sell surplus water to California
By Bob Gomperz

After reading a story last week from The New York Times about farmers along the Colorado River selling water to cities, I am even more firmly convinced that gravity has no effect; it’s money toward which water flows.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Smelt Supreme Court ruling goes against farmers
By Bob Egelko

The U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal today by Central California farmers who claimed the federal government lacks constitutional authority to protect the imperiled delta smelt by limiting north-to-south water shipments.

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