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UC Drought Summit: State policy for future droughts

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Notebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation

May 22, 2014

What can the state do to better prepare for a drier future: groundwater management, water efficiency, water conservation … ?...

An update from the State Water Board on curtailment notice statuses for the Scott River, Russian River, Delta, and Tulare Lake Basin, plus an update from the Delta Watermaster

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Notebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation

May 20, 2014

At today’s meeting at the State Water Resources Control Board, John O’Hagan updated the board on the curtailment notices and...

California Water Policy Seminar Series: A regulator perspective on balancing environmental and economic interests

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Best of the NotebookDelta scienceNotebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation

May 20, 2014

The 2014 California Water Policy Seminar Series, presented by the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences and the law school’s...

Endangered species and drought: Can we break out of the Endangered Species Act death spiral?

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EcosystemsNotebook News and Features

May 20, 2014

  Professor Peter Moyle, former Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Hayes, Professor Richard Frank and others discuss the impact...

Delta ISB releases review of the Draft BDCP EIR/EIS

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Delta Conveyance ProjectDelta science

May 19, 2014

The Delta Independent Science Board (Delta ISB) has released its review of the draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) Environmental...

Letter: Coalition of environmental groups and others write Senators Feinstein and Boxer in opposition to proposed emergency drought legislation

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Notebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation

May 19, 2014

A coalition of environmental organizations, environmental justice groups, fisheries groups and Native American tribes have written a letter to Senators...

Growers and ag interest groups write Governor Brown, warn that rushing groundwater legislation would be a ‘grave mistake’

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AgricultureGroundwater NewsNotebook News and Features

May 15, 2014

A group of thirty growers and agricultural interest groups have written a letter to Governor Brown, warning him that it...

Restore the Delta and other tunnel opponents hold media call, criticize lack of BDCP Implementing Agreement, say water exporters taking over DWR, and say Feinstein’s S 2918 would remove key protections

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Delta Conveyance ProjectNotebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation

May 14, 2014

Tunnel opponents release BDCP documents obtained through public records act requests Earlier today, Restore the Delta held a press conference...

State Water Board to consider emergency minimum flow requirements for three Sacramento River tributaries

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Policy and regulation

May 14, 2014

At Tuesday’s meeting of the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board), the Board will consider adoption of a...

California Water Policy Seminar Series: Farms, floods, fowl and fish on the Yolo Bypass: Can we all get along here?

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Delta scienceEcosystemsNotebook News and Features

May 12, 2014

  The California Water Policy Seminar Series, presented by the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences and the law school’s...

Diving into groundwater – what’s left of it

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Groundwater NewsNotebook News and Features

May 7, 2014

As the warm temperatures melt California’s meager snowpack, turning rivers into streams and streams into mere trickles, communities and farmers...

The BDCP is affordable for Los Angeles ratepayers, says the City’s Ratepayer Advocate

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Delta Conveyance Project

May 6, 2014

The Bay Delta Conservation Plan is affordable to almost all Los Angeles households under a wide array of cost and...

DWR Groundwater Report, the picture edition

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Groundwater News

May 1, 2014

I was preparing to print out DWR’s groundwater report, but then I realized that out of the 51 pages, most...

Groundwater Management Workshop, Part 4: The state backstop

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Groundwater NewsNotebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation

May 1, 2014

On March 24, the California Natural Resources Agency, the California Department of Food and Agriculture, and the California Environmental Protection...

DWR releases report on groundwater basins with potential shortages, monitoring, gaps

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Groundwater News

April 30, 2014

From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today released a report on groundwater showing that...