Monday, June 9, 2025

California DOF projects 5 Delta Counties Will Account for 84% of California's Population Growth Over The Next 45 Years, While Southern California Population Is Projected To Decline

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California DOF's population projections are highly relevant to State planning efforts such as water infrastructure.  The vast majority o...

Personal News - Moved to Montana

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I haven't posted on this blog in nearly a year.  That's because I moved to Missoula, Montana for a new job in Fall 2024.  I am now D...
Sunday, June 8, 2025

California's Next Governor Should Make New Technology Their Top Water Policy Priority

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There have been some interesting stories in the past year about pilot projects for new desalination technologies.  Here are two in the LA Ti...
Monday, June 24, 2024

Review of Delta Conveyance Project Benefit-Cost Analysis

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My complete review and discussion of the implications from the Department of Water Resource's benefit-cost analysis of the $20 billion D...
Friday, June 7, 2024

Comment letter on Delta Conveyance Project benefit-cost analysis

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On Monday, the Department of Water Resources Director and consultants will be presenting their latest cost-estimate of the delta tunnel and ...
Saturday, June 1, 2024

DWR's Delta Conveyance Project Analysis Finds a 0.39 Benefit-Cost Ratio For Agricultural Users. It Won't Be Long Before Even More Agricultural Agencies Are Dropping Out or Filing Lawsuits Against the Project

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 A benefit-cost ratio specific to agricultural users is not reported anywhere in the report, but it is pretty easy to calculate from the rep...
Sunday, May 19, 2024

Delta Conveyance Facility (DCF) Water Is More Expensive Than Desalination, Not Less As DWR Claims

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The Department of Water Resources (DWR) puts out a lot of misleading information around the Delta Conveyance Facility (DCF).  When DWR relea...
Thursday, May 16, 2024

Quick Reaction to Delta Conveyance Benefit-Cost Analysis

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Received the B-C analysis about 2 hours ago, and I am getting requests for instant reaction.  Posting here rather than respond to individual...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Questions for the release of the Delta Conveyance benefit-cost analysis

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This evening, I learned that the long-awaited benefit-cost analysis for the Delta Conveyance Facility (DCF) is being released tomorrow morni...
Monday, February 12, 2024

Income-based Fixed Charge for Electricity? There must be a better way

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I support the efforts of lawmakers to put the income-based fixed charge proposal on hold. I understand the objectives, but it seems to me th...
Friday, December 8, 2023

Final Delta Conveyance EIR Released Without Cost Estimate or Benefit-Cost Analysis: A Quick Look At Old DWR Analysis of Single-Tunnel Alternatives Shows This Proposal Is Likely A Bad Deal For SWP Agencies. (and even worse for a State that cares about the environment and non-SWP regions)

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 The Final EIR for Delta Conveyance was released today.  I just read the press release summary.  Here is my quick take. The press release ca...
Monday, August 14, 2023

My Comments on Three Sacramento City Council Members Propose Significant Strengthening Of Rent Control and Tenant Protections

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Several members of the Sacramento City Council led by Katie Valenzuela, are proposing a substantial increase in rent control and tenant prot...
Thursday, December 15, 2022

Is DWR Lying About The Low-Utilization Operating Plan For The Delta Conveyance Project?

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The most significant change from the twin-tunnel, three-intake, 9,000cfs capacity WaterFix to the single-tunnel, two-intake, 6,000cfs capaci...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Agricultural Jobs Data for 2021 Show Drought Impacts

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The best quality jobs data (QCEW) was released earliest this month through the end of 2021, and gives the first reliable data on the state o...
Monday, May 2, 2022

Stanford scientists find that the Delta Conveyance Project is a much worse idea than converting Diablo Canyon into a giant nuclear-powered desalination plant.

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  A recent study from Stanford scientists has caused some policy makers, including Governor Newsom, to reconsider the timeline for closing t...
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