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DELTA ISB: 21st Century Science For 21st Century Environmental Decision Making: The Challenges And Opportunities Of Near-term Iterative Ecological Forecasting

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June 17, 2021 156

What if we could predict changes to ecosystems in the same way we can predict the weather? An emerging field...

FEATURE: Salinity Management: Putting Southern California’s water supply on a low sodium diet

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June 16, 2021 528

While the saying, “too much of a good thing,” sounds pleasant at its core, water managers take that very seriously...

KERN COUNTY WATER SUMMIT: Two perspectives on the State Water Board report, Recommendations for an Effective Water Rights Response to Climate Change

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June 2, 2021 315

State Water Board’s Erik Ekdahl discusses the climate change report; Attorney Valerie Kincaid explains why existing water right holders are concerned Earlier this year, the State Water Resources Control Board released a report, Recommendations for an Effective Water Rights Response...

BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Bay Delta Hydrology 101

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May 26, 2021 408

X2, OMR, Gates, Barriers, and more: Dr. Ted Sommer sorts out the hydrodynamics of the Delta At the 2021 Bay-Delta...

CA WATER COMMISSION: Advancing Flood-MAR: What are the possibilities?

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May 12, 2021 484

Dr. Graham Fogg and DWR’s Jenny Marr discuss the efforts underway to assess the potential for Flood Managed Aquifer Recharge...

CA WATER COMMISSION: Conveyance and water rights; Considerations for conveyance across the Delta

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May 5, 2021 357

Delta Watermaster: It’s physically, ecologically, and economically impossible to squeeze water out of the Delta for export. At the April meeting of the California Water Commission, as part of their continuing work on examining the state’s role in financing conveyance...

FEATURE: Water wars! What are they good for?

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April 21, 2021 511

A recap of the webinar featuring Tim Quinn, formerly with ACWA, Tracy Quinn with the NRDC, and author John Fleck...

DELTA ISB: Harmful Algal Blooms in the Delta (and elsewhere)

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April 14, 2021 526

Harmful algal blooms (or HABs) occur when colonies of algae, under the right conditions, grow out of control and produce...

YOSEMITE LAW CONFERENCE: Take me to the river: Evolving frameworks for environmental flows

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March 24, 2021 466

Integrating consumptive use with environmental flows is a core challenge for water management. Regulatory methods for protecting instream flows have evolved over the decades. Currently, California is engaged in a robust conversation about these approaches as the state grapples with...

FEATURE: The What, Why, and How of Groundwater Modeling

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January 27, 2021 787

Abishek Singh, Ph.D., is Vice President of Intera’s Western Region based out of Los Angeles. His professional experience has focused...

DELTA ISB: Water Supply Reliability Estimation: an overview

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January 20, 2021 322

Water supply reliability. It’s half of the co-equal goals of “providing a more reliable water supply for California and protecting,...

DELTA ISB: What we know and don’t know about the Delta foodweb

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January 14, 2021 183

The Delta Reform Act of 2009 established the Delta Independent Science Board (or Delta ISB), whose ten members are appointed by the Delta Stewardship Council. The members appointed to the Delta ISB are nationally or internationally prominent scientists with appropriate...

SGMA IN ACTION: Challenges and opportunities, Environmental justice considerations, and first lawsuits over GSP plans

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January 13, 2021 674

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] Critically overdrafted groundwater basins submitted their Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSPs) in January 2020, and high and medium priority subbasins...

YOSEMITE ENVIRO LAW CONFERENCE: Tribal Water Rights and Resources in a Changing Climate

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December 16, 2020 318

From the Klamath waters to the Western desert valleys, recent court rulings highlight the important and evolving role of tribal...

WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: Rock, Paper, Physics: SGMA and Water Transfers

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December 15, 2020 260

At the 3rd Annual Western Groundwater Congress, Anona Dutton with EKI Environment and Water gave a presentation on water transfers and the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, providing an overview of how water transfers are typically implemented, some of the implications...

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DELTA ISB: 21st Century Science For 21st Century Environmental Decision Making: The Challenges And Opportunities Of Near-term Iterative Ecological Forecasting

FEATURE: Salinity Management: Putting Southern California’s water supply on a low sodium diet

KERN COUNTY WATER SUMMIT: Two perspectives on the State Water Board report, Recommendations for an Effective Water Rights Response to Climate Change

BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Bay Delta Hydrology 101

CA WATER COMMISSION: Advancing Flood-MAR: What are the possibilities?

CA WATER COMMISSION: Conveyance and water rights; Considerations for conveyance across the Delta

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Water transfers at the California Water Commission, part 1: An overview of California’s Transfer Market and DWR’s activities related to transfers

DELTA ISB: 21st Century Science For 21st Century Environmental Decision Making: The Challenges And Opportunities Of Near-term Iterative Ecological Forecasting

FEATURE: Salinity Management: Putting Southern California’s water supply on a low sodium diet

KERN COUNTY WATER SUMMIT: Two perspectives on the State Water Board report, Recommendations for an Effective Water Rights Response to Climate Change

BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Bay Delta Hydrology 101

CA WATER COMMISSION: Advancing Flood-MAR: What are the possibilities?

CA WATER COMMISSION: Conveyance and water rights; Considerations for conveyance across the Delta

FEATURE: Water wars! What are they good for?

DELTA ISB: Harmful Algal Blooms in the Delta (and elsewhere)

YOSEMITE LAW CONFERENCE: Take me to the river: Evolving frameworks for environmental flows

FEATURE: The What, Why, and How of Groundwater Modeling

DELTA ISB: Water Supply Reliability Estimation: an overview

DELTA ISB: What we know and don’t know about the Delta foodweb

SGMA IN ACTION: Challenges and opportunities, Environmental justice considerations, and first lawsuits over GSP plans

YOSEMITE ENVIRO LAW CONFERENCE: Tribal Water Rights and Resources in a Changing Climate

WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: Rock, Paper, Physics: SGMA and Water Transfers