Best of the Notebook

GSA SUMMIT: Setting Sustainable Management Criteria: It’s easy, isn’t it?

July 22, 2020

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The details of how a groundwater sustainability plan will be implemented are defined by the setting of sustainable management criteria (or SMC). With several undesirable results to consider, a range of tech... Read More...

TIM QUINN: Forty Years of California Water Policy: What Worked, What Didn’t, and Lessons for the Future

Maven

July 16, 2020

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Tim Quinn spent more than ten years as the executive director of the Association of California Water Agencies and more than twenty years as the Deputy General Manager of the Metropolitan Water District of South... Read More...

GSA SUMMIT: Lessons learned from the 2020 GSPs: Perspectives from the critically overdrafted basins

Maven

July 8, 2020

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The implementation phase of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act has now begun for the basins designated as critically-overdrafted. Getting to this point has been an unparalleled journey as communities, farmers, water suppliers, and others navigated thro... Read More...

FEATURE: The state of California’s environment

Maven

July 1, 2020

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Friends of the River co-founder Mark Dubois and current Executive Director Eric Wesselman discuss the protections for California rivers and why they are optimistic for the future April 22 is Earth Day, which m... Read More...

GROUNDWATER 101: The basics

Maven

June 24, 2020

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Dr. Thomas Harter provides a basic understanding of groundwater – what it is, how much groundwater is out there, how fast groundwater moves, and where it comes from and where it goes Groundwater is an importan... Read More...

CA WATER COMMISSION: Preparing California’s Water System for Climate Extremes

Maven

June 17, 2020

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In October 2019, the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) released the report, Priorities for California’s Water, which outlined California’s water management challenges and their top priorities for addressing those challenges. Other reports from the ... Read More...

FEATURE: Water rights 101

Maven

June 3, 2020

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California water law is complex, governed by both state and federal law, part property law and part environmental law. The system incorporates a traditional water rights riparian system with the appropriative ... Read More...

WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: Developing a water budget

Maven

May 13, 2020

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With water availability being an important concern, water managers often use water budgets to quantify and manage water resources. A water budget is an accounting of the rates of the inflows, outflows, and cha... Read More...

FEATURE: The state of the salmonids in California

Maven

May 6, 2020

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Webinar takes a deep dive into the state of salmon and steelhead, and provides recommendations for resiliency In 2005, the California Legislature passed SB 857 requiring CalTrans to locate, assess, and remediate fish passage barriers on the State Highway Syst... Read More...

TED GRANTHAM: The evolution of environmental flows in California

Maven

April 15, 2020

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Ted Grantham is a Cooperative Extension Specialist at UC Berkeley and the CalTrout Ecosystem Fellow with the Public Policy Institute of California. He studies water, climate, and water management with a focus ... Read More...

WATER LAW SYMPOSIUM: The battle over the raising of Shasta Dam

Maven

April 8, 2020

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One of the long-running controversies in California water is the effort to raise Shasta Dam, a dam on the Sacramento River in Northern California which creates a 4.5 MAF reservoir, the largest in California. T... Read More...

WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: Quantifying surface water depletion from groundwater pumping

Maven

April 2, 2020

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Understanding and conveying groundwater’s role in a changing world Surface water commonly is hydraulically connected to ground water, but the interactions are difficult to observe and measure and have largely been ignored in water-management considerations an... Read More...

WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: Depletion of interconnected surface waters: Not that simple

Maven

March 26, 2020

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Sierra Ryan is a water resources planner with the County of Santa Cruz. In this presentation from the Groundwater Resources Association's 2019 Western Groundwater Congress, Ms. Ryan tells the story of how the ... Read More...

ECOSYSTEM-BASED MANAGEMENT: A new paradigm for managing California’s freshwater ecosystems

Maven

March 25, 2020

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Californians rely on the state’s myriad of rivers and streams for things such as water supply, hydropower, recreation, fisheries, biodiversity, and more. These ecosystems and the benefits they provide are part ... Read More...

CA WATER LAW SYMPOSIUM: Federalism and Water under the Trump Administration: Has the Long Peace Come to an End?

Maven

February 12, 2020

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The California Water Law Symposium is on my short list of not-to-be-missed events on my yearly calendar. The symposium is a collaborative student-run event where students from each law school organize a panel which bring together a variety of interesting spea... Read More...

Delta smelt, Alameda song sparrows, and the climate change vulnerability of Bay Area's freshwater fish species in the latest issue of the San Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science journal

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Understanding the human dimensions of social agro-ecological systems: What motivates farmer decision-making and policy change?

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Building Socioecological Resilience by Confronting Environmental Injustice: A Participatory Approach

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Engaging Diverse Communities around Water, Climate, and the Environment

DELTA SCIENCE NEEDS, PART 2: What do managers need to know to effectively make decisions in the future Delta?

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Franks Tract Futures: Using map based public surveys to inform a participatory multi-benefit design project

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: From Measurements, Models and Maps to Management

DR. MICHAEL KIPARSKY: Can Recharge Net Metering contribute to sustainable groundwater management?

GSA SUMMIT: Setting Sustainable Management Criteria: It’s easy, isn’t it?

TIM QUINN: Forty Years of California Water Policy: What Worked, What Didn’t, and Lessons for the Future

GSA SUMMIT: Lessons learned from the 2020 GSPs: Perspectives from the critically overdrafted basins

FEATURE: The state of California’s environment

GROUNDWATER 101: The basics

CA WATER COMMISSION: Preparing California’s Water System for Climate Extremes

GSA SUMMIT: Setting Sustainable Management Criteria: It’s easy, isn’t it?

TIM QUINN: Forty Years of California Water Policy: What Worked, What Didn’t, and Lessons for the Future

GSA SUMMIT: Lessons learned from the 2020 GSPs: Perspectives from the critically overdrafted basins

FEATURE: The state of California’s environment

GROUNDWATER 101: The basics

CA WATER COMMISSION: Preparing California’s Water System for Climate Extremes

FEATURE: Water rights 101

WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: Developing a water budget

FEATURE: The state of the salmonids in California

TED GRANTHAM: The evolution of environmental flows in California

WATER LAW SYMPOSIUM: The battle over the raising of Shasta Dam

WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: Quantifying surface water depletion from groundwater pumping

WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: Depletion of interconnected surface waters: Not that simple

ECOSYSTEM-BASED MANAGEMENT: A new paradigm for managing California’s freshwater ecosystems

CA WATER LAW SYMPOSIUM: Federalism and Water under the Trump Administration: Has the Long Peace Come to an End?