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SGMA IMPLEMENTATION: Groundwater sustainability goals and challenges

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Best of the NotebookGroundwater NewsNotebook News and Features

June 5, 2019

Groundwater managers working in four critically-overdrafted basins discuss how their planning efforts are going In basins all over California, groundwater...

CA WATER COMMISSION: DWR’s Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment

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Climate changeNotebook News and Features

May 30, 2019

Assessment looks at six categories of vulnerability: wildfire, extreme heat, sea level rise, long-term persistent hydrologic changes, short-term extreme hydrologic...

MET BAY-DELTA COMMITTEE: Update on Delta conveyance

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Delta Conveyance ProjectNotebook News and Features

May 29, 2019

At the May meeting of the Metropolitan Special Committee on the Bay Delta, Steve Arakawa, Bay Delta Initiatives Manager, updated...

ELLEN HANAK: Water and the Future of the San Joaquin Valley

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Groundwater NewsNotebook News and Features

May 29, 2019

Ellen Hanak delivers four priorities for managing the implementation of SGMA in the San Joaquin Valley The San Joaquin Valley...

ELLEN HANAK: Managing Drought in a Changing Climate: Four Essential Reforms

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Best of the NotebookNotebook News and FeaturesPlanning and managementPolicy and regulation

May 22, 2019

Climate change is having a profound impact on California’s water resources, as evidenced by greater weather extremes, reduced snowpack, higher...

CA WATER COMMISSION: Feather River Fish Hatchery

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Fish and wildlifeNotebook News and Features

May 16, 2019

The Feather River Fish Hatchery is a State Water Project facility that was built in conjunction with the construction of...

CALIFORNIA WATER POLICY CONFERENCE: Tribal Groundwater Rights and SGMA: A New Underlying Tension?

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Best of the NotebookGroundwater NewsNotebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation

May 15, 2019

Panel discussion moderated by DWR Tribal Advisor Anecita Agustinez discusses tribal involvement in GSAs, the benefits of tribal participation in...

CALIFORNIA WATER POLICY CONFERENCE: Reasonable Use or Waste: A Developing Dichotomy

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Notebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulationWater rights and water law

May 8, 2019

Panel discussion explores the evolution of the doctrine of reasonable use and considers how the doctrine will, or will not,...

REACTIONS: Water agencies, environmental organizations, legislators, and Delta stakeholders react to single-tunnel Delta conveyance project *UPDATED*

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Delta Conveyance ProjectPolicy and regulation

May 2, 2019

Today, Natural Resources Agency announced that the Department of Water Resources will cease pursuit of permits for a twin tunnel...

REACTIONS: Organizations and water agencies react to Governor Newsom’s Water Resilience Plan

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Policy and regulation

April 30, 2019

Yesterday, Governor Newsom signed an Executive Order directing the Secretaries of Natural Resources, California Department of Food and Ag, and...

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT FORUM, Part 4: Case studies from the Bay Delta system

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Delta science

April 25, 2019

Presentations highlight the Montezuma Wetlands Project and the Nigiri Project Adaptive management is widely regarded as an effective approach to...

CA WATER COMMISSION: Stormwater Capture and Aquifer Recharge

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Best of the NotebookNotebook News and FeaturesWater supply augmentation

April 24, 2019

Panel discusses the potential of stormwater as a resource, implementation of stormwater capture projects Traditionally, stormwater has been viewed as...

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT FORUM, Part 3: Challenges and lessons learned with adaptive management in the Bay-Delta

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Delta sciencePlanning and management

April 18, 2019

Panel of Delta project managers discuss how they apply adaptive management in their projects Adaptive management is defined in the...

REACTIONS: Water contractors react to updated CVP allocation for south of Delta ag

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Current Conditions

April 18, 2019

Yesterday, the Bureau of Reclamation announced an updated water allocation for Central Valley Project agricultural contractors south of the Delta...

ERNEST CONANT: Federal priorities for Reclamation Mid-Pacific Region for 2019

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Notebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation

April 17, 2019

Reclamation Mid-Pacific Regional Director talks about progress made in implementing the directives in the Presidential Memo At the Friant Water...