http://www.c-win.org/rss.xml News en http://www.c-win.org/lettertohayes.html http://www.c-win.org/lettertohayes.html http://www.c-win.org/05232009ContraCostaResnicks.html Stewart Resnick is not your typical dirt-under-the-fingernails farmer. The Beverly Hills billionaire's companies, according to tax records, appear to own more than 115,000 acres in Kern County, about the size of four San Franciscos and more than all of the East Bay Regional Park District's parks combined. http://www.c-win.org/05232009ContraCostaResnicks.html http://www.c-win.org/05232009contracostapaper.html It must have seemed like easy money. The state was delivering more water than ever to its customers, and in Kern County some of those customers sold some of it back, through a simple trade, at a higher price. http://www.c-win.org/05232009contracostapaper.html http://www.c-win.org/05232009contracosta.html Kern County water users who sold millions of dollars worth of water to a program meant to help the environment said the arrangement made sense because the water was rightfully theirs. http://www.c-win.org/05232009contracosta.html http://www.c-win.org/05252009ContraCosta.html Just before Interstate 5 climbs the Grapevine out of the San Joaquin Valley is a massive underground reservoir that its owners say is the largest water banking project of its kind in the world. Here among the tumbleweeds, sand and scrub, 15 miles west of Bakersfield, the gush of crystal-clear water appears as curiously out of place as the great blue herons cruising http://www.c-win.org/05252009ContraCosta.html http://www.c-win.org/5232009contracostapump.html As the West Coast's largest estuary plunged to the brink of collapse from 2000 to 2007, state water officials pumped unprecedented amounts of water out of the Delta only to effectively buy some of it back at taxpayer expense for a failed environmental protection plan, a MediaNews investigation has found. The "environmental water account" set up in 2000 to improve http://www.c-win.org/5232009contracostapump.html http://www.c-win.org/12022008sfgate.html The giant state and federal pumps in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta that funnel water to 25 million Californians should be shut down until certain Central Valley farmers retire hundreds of thousands of acres of chemical-laden farmland, according to a lawsuit filed today by a state water watchdog. Irrigating agricultural land in the western San Joaquin Valley tainted with selenium, mercury, boron and other toxic substances constitutes an unreasonable use of a public resource http://www.c-win.org/12022008sfgate.html http://www.c-win.org/12012008latimesblog.html Add another lawsuit to the the seemingly endless legal battle over pumping from the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta, the troubled heart of California's water system. In a complaint filed Monday in Sacramento http://www.c-win.org/12012008latimesblog.html http://www.c-win.org/12012008indybay.html http://www.c-win.org/12012008indybay.html http://www.c-win.org/12012008stocktonrecord.html SACRAMENTO � Water exports from the Delta should cease until exporters can comply with the law, environmentalists said this afternoon in a far-reaching lawsuit targeting the state and federal governments. The lawsuit, filed in Sacramento County Superior Court, says water managers in recent years have increased exports to farms and cities south of the Delta even as fish http://www.c-win.org/12012008stocktonrecord.html California Water Impact Network