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California Water Commission: Critically Overdrafted Basins and Groundwater Sustainability Plan regulations

Groundwater News Notebook News and Features

August 20, 2015

DWR’s Mary Scruggs gives more details on the draft list of critically overdrafted basins; plus an update on the development...

Delta Stewardship Council looks at conveyance, storage, and water project operations, part 2: Environmental and Water Supplier Perspectives

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Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

August 19, 2015

PPIC’s Dr. Jeff Mount, The Bay Institute’s Gary Bobker, and water resources consultant Maurice Hall give environmental perspectives; ACWA’s Tim...

Delta Stewardship Council looks at conveyance, storage, and water project operations, part 1: Policy Perspectives

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Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

August 18, 2015

Public policy professor Dr. John Kirlin, scientist Dr. Sam Luoma, and Deputy Secretary of Water Policy Karla Nemeth advise the...

Sustainable Groundwater Management Update: Draft List of Critically Overdrafted Basins Available for Comment *** UPDATED with actual list

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Groundwater News

August 17, 2015

From the Department of Water Resources, Sustainable Groundwater Management Program: The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) directs DWR to identify...

Photoblog post: Road trip: Drought in the San Joaquin Valley: A farmer’s perspective

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Hydrology Notebook News and Features

August 7, 2015

What does drought look like? I tried this once before last year. Optimistically, I engaged some of my readers and...

Metropolitan’s Special Committee on the Bay Delta hears an overview of the Cal Water Fix documents and an update on drought operations in the Delta

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Delta Conveyance Project Notebook News and Features

August 5, 2015

Metropolitan staff review what’s in the documents and explore what the project might yield; Drought operations update includes the effect...

Sustainable Groundwater Management Act update: GSP webcast for Batch 1 now available, Batch 2 and Batch 3 meetings scheduled; Groundwater replenishment discussion paper; Draft basin boundary regs

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Groundwater News Notebook News and Features

August 3, 2015

From the Department of Water Resources Sustainable Groundwater Management Program: Groundwater Sustainability Plan Draft Regulations Batch 1 Issues Webcast Recording...

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

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Policy and regulation

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...

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