On Wednesday, August 12, 2009 the U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior David J. Hayes and the Director of California Department of Water Resources Lester Snow will hold a public meeting to discuss California’s water challenges and Delta related issues. The meeting will take place at the Capitol Plaza Holiday Inn.

For more information on the agenda and scheduled speakers please visit the DWR’s website at www.water.ca.gov.

On Thursday, August 6, members of the Delta Vision Foundation (formerly the Governor’s Delta Vision Blue Ribbon Task Force) released an assessment of “pre-print” bills in the California Legislature that address the ongoing crisis in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The “pre-printed” bills allow the legislature to meet and hear from the public before the bills actually go into print.

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