"There’s no safe haven for public water providers here."
Prop 218’s Ongoing Impacts on California Water
https://www.ppic.org/blog/prop-218s-ongoing-impacts-on-california-water
A pair of recent court decisions in San Diego have thrust California’s Proposition 218 back into the spotlight. But how does this proposition affect water affordability and conservation in the state? We asked legal expert Dave Owen to explain.
Via CalMatters: California ranchers intentionally violated an emergency water order. Now lawmakers want to triple the fines
“The board doesn’t have the tools to act quickly,” said Michael Kiparsky, water program director at the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at UC Berkeley School of Law. “The fish don’t care if the lawyers are trying to figure out who’s right or wrong if they’re dead.”
https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/06/california-water-fines/
The legal deets on the complaint filed earlier this month by the Sierra Club and a coalition of local environmental orgs against the City of #Bakersfield:
The complaint alleges the city's diversion of Kern River 💧 regularly results in the complete dewatering of the #KernRiver, "w/out satisfying its duties under the CA Constitution, the Public Resources Code, Fish & Game Code, the CA Civil Code, & the #publictrust doctrine."
#Water thieves abound in dry #California. Why are they so hard to catch?
https://grist.org/drought/water-rights-enforcement-california-drought-marijuana-shasta-tuolumne/
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