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  • The Twin Tunnels Are Out?

    The Twin Tunnels Are Out?

    Last month, he decided to scale back his predecessor’s decades-long effort, the Twin Tunnels, to deliver water from Northern to Southern California.

  • Are the Twin Tunnels Dead?

    Are the Twin Tunnels Dead?

    On water issues, Governor Newsom said: “There are no easy answers. But let me be as clear as I can be. I do not support, the WaterFix as currently configured, meaning I don’t support the Twin Tunnels.

  • Delta Tunnels Oversight Bill Introduced

    Delta Tunnels Oversight Bill Introduced

    Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, introduced legislation today that will help protect California’s precious water supply and ensure the vitality of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta by requiring more legislative oversight and public scrutiny of the state’s twin-tunnels project known as WaterFix.

  • An Important Victory in the Fight to Stop the Delta Tunnels!

    An Important Victory in the Fight to Stop the Delta Tunnels!

    California WaterFix was not selected by the United States Environmental Protection Agency for a water infrastructure WIFIA loan for 2019. WIFIA loans are generally used for public-private-partnerships, and are guaranteed by U.S. taxpayers.

  • ACTION ALERT UPDATE It's Time to Oppose the Delta Tunnels at the Delta Stewardship Council!

    ACTION ALERT UPDATE It's Time to Oppose the Delta Tunnels at the Delta Stewardship Council!

    The California Department of Water Resources has filed with the Delta Stewardship Council a “consistency determination” for California Water Fix. This filing is how DWR will get approval from the Delta Stewardship Council that the Delta tunnels project is consistent with the Council’s Delta Plan. This process checks off a box to move forward with construction of the tunnels. It’s time to tell the DSC, the project needs to be stopped once and or all.

  • What do Southern Californians really get out of Gov. Jerry Brown's twin tunnels project?

    What do Southern Californians really get out of Gov. Jerry Brown's twin tunnels project?

    The most expensive state public works project ever would be financed primarily by Southern California water users. But it’s not exactly clear what they’d be buying.

  • Senator Feinstein Opposes Crippling Tunnels Rider

    Senator Feinstein Opposes Crippling Tunnels Rider

    A congressman set off a legislative bomb in California's water wars last week.

  • GOP seeks to ban lawsuits on delta twin tunnels

    GOP seeks to ban lawsuits on delta twin tunnels

    If this language becomes law, the dozens of existing lawsuits against the project would be summarily dismissed, allowing the twin tunnels to be built without resolution of legal challenges by local governments, water districts, recreational groups and conservation groups

  • Did Governor Brown promise the Bay Area a new reservoir in exchange for Delta tunnels suppor

    Did Governor Brown promise the Bay Area a new reservoir in exchange for Delta tunnels suppor

    In October, the Santa Clara Valley Water District said that they only would commit about a third of the $650 million Gov. Jerry Brown's office had hoped it would pay for his controversial Delta tunnels project. Now, in a sudden reversal, they may pay the full amount.

  • SoCal water agency could vote soon on whether to bankroll Delta tunnels

    SoCal water agency could vote soon on whether to bankroll Delta tunnels

    Facing pressure from Gov. Jerry Brown, Southern California’s largest water agency could vote as soon as April on whether to take a majority stake in the twin-tunnels project Brown plans for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

  • Delta Tunnels Hearing Delayed due to Allegations of Illegal Meetings

    Delta Tunnels Hearing Delayed due to Allegations of Illegal Meetings

    Today, the California State Water Board announced that it would take two weeks to investigate allegations of illegal meetings and unlawful ex parte communications between the Department of Water Resources (DWR) and the State Board’s CA WaterFix (Delta Tunnels) hearing team, thereby postponing the first tunnels hearing of 2018 to February 2.

  • Last Campaign to stop the Delta Tunnels Once and For All

    Last Campaign to stop the Delta Tunnels Once and For All

    Celebrate a year of great achievements with us + help us raise money for what we will believe will be the last campaign to stop the Delta tunnels once and for all in 2018.

  • San Joaquin farmers willing to pay for the Delta tunnels

    San Joaquin farmers willing to pay for the Delta tunnels

    A bloc of San Joaquin farmers tentatively endorsed the Delta tunnels project Thursday, becoming the first significant agricultural group to support the struggling plan.

  • Californians may be paying for twin tunnels

    Californians may be paying for twin tunnels

    With no major water district yet signing on voluntarily to help pay for the project amid uncertainty about its costs and benefits, state and local promoters of the tunnels now contend that dozens of local water agencies representing millions of Californians are obligated to help foot the bill under their existing contracts.

  • Why costly WaterFix tunnels project fixes nothing

    Why costly WaterFix tunnels project fixes nothing

    Though the $17 billion tunnel project really fixes nothing, some water agencies claim the project is the only viable option to get water to their communities and are poised to pass the huge costs onto their customers.

  • $84M in taxpayer funds improperly used for Delta tunnels

    $84M in taxpayer funds improperly used for Delta tunnels

    The U.S. government improperly spent $84 million to help plan for a massive project to ship Northern California water to Southern California, a new federal audit said.

  • More signs that Southern California people do not like or want the Delta Tunnels

    More signs that Southern California people do not like or want the Delta Tunnels

    A section of the Colorado River Aqueduct. Southern California receives about 30 percent of its water from the State Water Project and relies heavily on the Colorado River Aqueduct. Photo: The Center For Land Use Interpretatio

  • Jerry Brown’s Delta Tunnels Approved by Trump Admin

    Jerry Brown’s Delta Tunnels Approved by Trump Admin

    As I predicted on election night, the President Donald Trump and Governor Jerry Brown administrations have apparently made a deal to fast-track Brown’s legacy project, the Delta Tunnels, considered by opponents to be the most environmentally destructive public works project in California history.

  • Endagered Species Act Signs Off on Delta Tunnels

    Endagered Species Act Signs Off on Delta Tunnels

    Endagered Species Act Signs Off on Delta Tunnels