EVENT: Central Valley Water Forum: Facts vs. Fictions

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Hello Revive Friends and Supporters,

2010 has brought new hopes for a restored San Joaquin River, with interim restoration releases scheduled again for February 1st.  The restoration program is underway, but as a non-profit partner dedicated to ensuring a successful restoration effort, Revive the San Joaquin has been fighting to ensure that the consequences of local, State, and federal actions do not impair our opportunities to restore the San Joaquin River.  Local land-use and development, water quality impacts from municipal and industrial dischargers, and other local activties not under the jurisdiction of restoration agency staff have little consideration in the formal restoration program and responsibilities for protection typically fall upon the shoulders of local non-profits and NGO's like ours.                          

By Chris Collins / The Fresno Bee

A Madera County judge has ruled that a key environmental report for a massive housing development near Highway 41 lacks important information, forcing the county to rewrite part of the report and threatening to delay the 5,200-home project.

By Malcolm Maclachlan | 10/01/09 12:00 AM PST..

Anyone who works in or around the Capitol has likely seen them in the last few months: clumps of Latino farm workers holding blue and white signs with slogans such as “Farm water=Jobs” or “If you like foreign oil, you’ll love foreign food.”

The California Latino Water Coalition is one of several groups that have sprung up in recent years as the Golden State has tried to address its water woes. But according to critics, those blue signs are hiding another color: the green of Astroturf. In politics, “Astroturfing” means creating and financing a group to make it appear to be a real grass-roots organization when, in fact, it isn’t. It is a common practice in the high-stakes world of Sacramento lobbying and communications strategy.

Visit Salmon Water Now! at www.salmonwaternow.org to view several videos addressing the use of water and the imperiled salmon fishery in California and share your thoughts.

The Farmer and the Fisherman from Bruce Tokars on Vimeo.

After six months of intense research Revive the San Joaquin and its partners Madera Oversight Coalition and the Dumna Tribal Council file our opening brief (below)against the Tesoro Viejo Developments.  The lawsuit challenges that the approval of the Specific Plan and other associated planning documents were grossly inadequate in that local policy and regional and State laws were widely ignored.  The lack of coordination with State, regional, and federal agencies was prevalent

"The Mississippi, the Columbia, the Colorado, and the Missouri rivers: few natural features of this planet have dominated people's lives like its rivers.  Rivers form the larger arteries of life, sustaining every living thing with the miracle of water. Indeed, rivers are life itself."

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