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Secretary Laird, legislators, and organizations react to Senator Feinstein’s introduction of the California Emergency Drought Relief Act of 2015

July 31, 2015

On Wednesday, Senators Feinstein and Boxer introduced the California Emergency Drought Relief Act of 2015. Here are reactions from elected...

Adapting to sea level rise and climate change in the San Francisco Bay Area: What can we do?

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Climate change Notebook News and Features Science

July 31, 2015

Dr. Letitia Grenier and Jeremy Lowe discuss current projects underway to address adapting the San Francisco Bay’s shoreline for sea...

Landscape-scale planning for ecological resilience in the Bay and Delta

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Delta science Notebook News and Features Planning and management

July 30, 2015

Senior Scientist Robin Grossinger discusses the latest research working to develop tools and to understand how to build landscapes resilient...

Latest PPIC survey finds majority of Californians say global warming contributing to drought, admit they don’t know how much water they should be saving

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Planning and management Reports

July 29, 2015

From the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC): A solid majority of Californians believe that global warming is already having...

Tidal marshes: Adapting to sea level rise, carbon sequestration

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Delta science Ecosystems Notebook News and Features

July 29, 2015

Dr. Jim Morris on the mechanisms of how tidal marshes keep pace with sea level rise, and Dr. John Callaway...

Projecting inundation in the San Francisco Bay: Sea level and tides

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Climate change Delta science Notebook News and Features

July 28, 2015

UC Berkeley’s Dr. Mark Stacey with the latest research on the impacts of sea level rise on the Bay Area...

Climate change and the Delta: What do we know about climate driven variability of the Bay-Delta ecosystem?

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Climate change Delta science Notebook News and Features

July 27, 2015

Dr. Jim Cloern briefly reviews what we know and what we don’t know about how climate change will impact the...

Water Rate Making after Capistrano Taxpayers Association v. San Juan Capistrano

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Notebook News and Features Water rights and water law

July 23, 2015

Attorneys Michael Colantuono, Kelly Salt, and John Bakker discuss the decision and its implication for water conservation pricing in California With the...

Media call: State Water Board officials discuss recent enforcement actions

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Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

July 20, 2015

Earlier today, State Water Board officials held a media call to discuss the recent water right enforcement actions, and to...

Sustainable Groundwater Management Act Implementation: An overview of the basin boundary regulation

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Groundwater News Notebook News and Features

July 20, 2015

Last Friday, the Department of Water Resources released the draft basin boundary regulations for public review and comment, the first...

House passes HR 2898, Western Water and American Food Security Act; Legislators and organizations react

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Policy and regulation

July 16, 2015

McClatchy DC News is reporting that the House of Representatives passed HR 2898, the Western Water and American Food Security...

Media call: Director Mark Cowin on the revised environmental documents for California Water Fix, formerly known as BDCP, more commonly known as the Delta tunnels

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Delta Conveyance Project Notebook News and Features

July 13, 2015

Today, Mark Cowin, Director of the California Department of Water Resources, held a media call with reporters to discuss the...

Organizations react to release of recirculated draft BDCP – Cal Water Fix documents

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Delta Conveyance Project

July 10, 2015

Yesterday, the Department of Water Resources and Bureau of Reclamation today released a joint Partially Recirculated Draft Environmental Impact Report/Supplemental...