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Water projects protect us from drought, floods

February 20, 2017 mdunbar831

Floods are nothing new in California, but that doesn’t make them any less painful. A state better known for cyclical…

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Would more dams help with all this water?

February 14, 2017 mdunbar831

Sometimes, you must pick your crisis. No, we’re not in danger of massive flooding, not yet. New Melones is only…

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This is a drought? Water board must be kidding

February 11, 2017 mdunbar831

It’s been raining buckets, and the State Water Resources Control Board says we’re still in a drought emergency. While we’re…

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Study: Salmon don’t want too much water

January 19, 2017 mdunbar831

Salmon don’t read memos or get emails from the state Department of Water Resources, nor do they consult U.S. Fish…

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Taking the water could cost the state

December 24, 2016 mdunbar831

Lots of angry words were billowing about during the momentous state water board hearings in Stockton, Merced and Modesto. There…

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Our View: If the state carries out its plan, our region will suffer

December 19, 2016 mdunbar831

Is the state coming to tear down the arch, or just extinguish some of its lights? For more than 100…

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Would Times like some facts with that Kool-Aid?

December 2, 2016 mdunbar831

In reading a recent editorial in the Los Angeles Times, we just about choked on our Cheerios. One of our…

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Economics of state’s water grab don’t add up

November 21, 2016 mdunbar831

Les Grober, deputy director of the State Water Resources Control Board, said his agency had done “more than was required”…

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Who will go extinct first, salmon or Valley farmers?

October 1, 2016 mdunbar831

Here, on the front lines of the state’s recently declared water war, we have more questions than ammunition. Is the…

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Day of Reckoning for Our Rivers

September 10, 2016 mdunbar831

When even the sanest, calmest, most optimistic people in the room are ready to stop talking and start fighting, it’s…

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