<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><br></div> <div style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Dan Bacher <danielbacher@fishsniffer.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, February 9, 2014 12:50 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Where Did All the Water Go? <br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv9881366708"><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/08/1276168/-Where-Did-All-The-Water-Go">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/08/1276168/-Where-Did-All-The-Water-Go</a><div><font class="yiv9881366708Apple-style-span" color="#242424" face="Verdana" size="6"><span class="yiv9881366708Apple-style-span" style="font-size:19px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><span class="yiv9881366708Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; font-family: Verdana; ">Where Did All The Water Go? </span><div><font class="yiv9881366708Apple-style-span" color="#3E3E3B" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="yiv9881366708Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="yiv9881366708Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(62, 62, 59);"><font class="yiv9881366708Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="5"><span class="yiv9881366708Apple-style-span" style="font-size:18px;"><i>Water Buffaloes, Egregious
Mismanagement and Better Water Policies</i></span></font></span><div style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;min-height:14.0px;"><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#3e3e3b" style="font:13.0px Verdana;color:#3e3e3b;"> </font><br class="yiv9881366708khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#3e3e3b" style="font:13.0px Verdana;color:#3e3e3b;">Restore the Delta (RTD), opponents of Governor Jerry Brown's Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) to build the peripheral tunnels, will hold a teleconference on Monday, Feb. 10 at 10 am to answer the question of "Where Did All the Water Go?"</font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana;color:rgb(62, 62, 59);min-height:16px;"><br></div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#3e3e3b" style="font:13.0px Verdana;color:#3e3e3b;">Experts will release new information and charts showing where California’s water went, how the State of California contributed to the current water scarcity through "egregious mismanagement," and offer better policies for a sustainable water future. </font></div><div style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;min-height:14.0px;"><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#3e3e3b" style="font:13.0px Verdana;color:#3e3e3b;"> </font><br class="yiv9881366708khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#3e3e3b" style="font:13.0px Verdana;color:#3e3e3b;">“Who took all the water over the past decade, and for what?” asked Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, executive director of RTD. “Californians
need to know where our water is going in order to decide whether to continue feeding water buffaloes or to change direction. Some use the current water scarcity to push the Peripheral Tunnels, but that is the wrong answer.”</font></div><div style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;min-height:14.0px;"><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#3e3e3b" style="font:13.0px Verdana;color:#3e3e3b;"> </font><br class="yiv9881366708khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#3e3e3b" style="font:13.0px Verdana;color:#3e3e3b;">The featured speakers are Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director, Restore the Delta; Adam Scow, California Campaigns Director, Food & Water Watch; Bill Jennings, Executive Director, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance; and Lloyd Carter, investigative reporter, expert on Westlands Water District</font></div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana;color:rgb(62, 62, 59);min-height:16px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#3e3e3b" style="font:13.0px Verdana;color:#3e3e3b;">Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; @MrSandHillCrane; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta </font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana;color:rgb(62, 62, 59);min-height:16px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#3e3e3b" style="font:13.0px Verdana;color:#3e3e3b;">For more information, go to: www.restorethedelta.org</font></div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana;color:rgb(62, 62, 59);min-height:16px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#3e3e3b" style="font:13.0px Verdana;color:#3e3e3b;">Last summer, high water releases down the Sacramento, Feather and American rivers left Shasta, Oroville and Folsom reservoirs at dangerously low levels. Shasta is at 36 percent of capacity and 53 percent of average; Oroville, 36 percent of capacity and 54 percent of average; and Folsom, 17 percent of capacity and 32 percent of average. </font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana;color:rgb(62, 62, 59);min-height:16px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><font
face="Verdana" size="4" color="#3e3e3b" style="font:13.0px Verdana;color:#3e3e3b;">Yet Pyramid Lake in Southern California is at 96 percent of capacity and 101 percent of average, while Castaic Reservoir is 86 percent of capacity and 102 percent of average. </font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana;color:rgb(62, 62, 59);min-height:16px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#3e3e3b" style="font:13.0px Verdana;color:#3e3e3b;">The state and federal governments shipped massive quantities of water to corporate agribusiness interests on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, the Kern Water Bank, oil companies conducting fracking and steam injection operations in Kern County and Southern California water agencies. The massive diversions of water during a drought are now
imperiling northern California water supplies and struggling Central Valley salmon and Delta fish populations. </font></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana;color:rgb(62, 62, 59);min-height:16px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#3e3e3b" style="font:13.0px Verdana;color:#3e3e3b;">For more information, go to: http://www.fishsniffer.com/blogs/details/the-emptying-of-northern-california-reservoirs/</font></div></div></div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>