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CA IRRIGATION INSTITUTE: Groundwater Sustainability Plan development: How is it going on the ground?

Best of the Notebook Groundwater News Notebook News and Features

February 27, 2019

A San Joaquin Valley perspective, a Sacramento Valley perspective, a researcher’s perspective and a consultant’s perspective on GSP development Since...

BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Harvest, Hatchery Returns, and Straying of Salmon Released at Bay and Delta sites during California’s Drought

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Best of the Notebook Delta Conveyance Project Delta science

January 17, 2019

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Coleman National Fish Hatchery is the largest salmon hatchery in California, annually producing 12...

DR. JEFF MOUNT: Ecosystem Water Budgets: A Novel Approach to Managing Water for the Environment

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Best of the Notebook Delta science Notebook News and Features

January 9, 2019

Dr. Jeff Mount has a long history of involvement with science issues in the Delta. As a professor at UC Davis, he started the Center for Watershed Sciences, which became home to researchers working on the Delta; he was on...

CA WATER COMMISSION: Climate change effects on the State Water Project and Central Valley Project

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Best of the Notebook Climate change Notebook News and Features

January 3, 2019

The latest climate change assessments show reduced Delta exports and carryover storage due to climate change likely by mid-century In...

WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: Multiple perspectives on groundwater-surface water interactions under SGMA

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Best of the Notebook Groundwater News Notebook News and Features

December 19, 2018

Panel discussion looks at groundwater-surface water interactions under SGMA from a regulatory, environmental, academic, and policy perspective The Sustainable Groundwater...

BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Checking assertions with data: Untangling factors that constrain water exports from the San Francisco Bay estuary

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Best of the Notebook Delta science Notebook News and Features

November 7, 2018

In recent years, media reports and editorials have suggested that environmental regulations have made Delta outflows increasingly large, project water exports are frequently limited or even halted by regulations to protect endangered species, and that regulations designed to protect endangered...

PANEL DISCUSSION: Emerging legal issues in SGMA implementation

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Best of the Notebook Groundwater News Notebook News and Features Water rights and water law

November 1, 2018

Panel discusses water rights and pumping allocations, groundwater recharge as a beneficial use, public trust doctrine and groundwater, and the...

DR. JEFF MOUNT: Making groundwater a centerpiece of managing the droughts of the future

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Best of the Notebook Groundwater News Notebook News and Features Planning and management

October 24, 2018

Four essential policy reforms are needed to reduce the social, economic, and environmental costs of future droughts, says Dr. Mount...

Innovative Technologies to Expand California’s Water Supply

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Best of the Notebook Notebook News and Features Water supply augmentation

October 10, 2018

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley Labs discuss their work on groundwater recharge, brackish desalination, and seawater desalinization As droughts intensify and the snowpacks diminish, California will need creative solutions to provide enhanced water supplies for urban use and agriculture. Scientists at...

Managed Aquifer Recharge in California

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Best of the Notebook Groundwater News Notebook News and Features

August 29, 2018

Timothy Parker and Graham Fogg discuss the benefits and the challenges of Managed Aquifer Recharge, and how MAR can be...

The unintended consequences of water conservation

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Best of the Notebook Notebook News and Features Planning and management

July 18, 2018

Dr. Kurt Schwabe discusses the impact of water conservation on recycled water; Yorba Linda Water District GM discusses effects of...

DR. JEFF MOUNT: The Consequences of Sustainable Groundwater Management

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Best of the Notebook Groundwater News Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

June 20, 2018

In 2014 California enacted the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) which mandates that areas that depend upon groundwater achieve sustainability by 2040. Meeting the requirements of SGMA will mean a net reduction in groundwater overdraft of about 2 million acre-feet...

SUSTAINABLE GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT: Can California successfully integrate groundwater and surface water under SGMA?

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Best of the Notebook Groundwater News Notebook News and Features

May 16, 2018

Maurice Hall and Kevin O’Brien present differing scenarios for how Groundwater Sustainability Agencies might address surface water impacts of groundwater...

EXPLAINER: Groundwater rights: What agencies & project developers need to know

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Best of the Notebook Groundwater News Notebook News and Features Water rights and water law

March 7, 2018

A seminar at McGeorge School of Law takes a deep dive into groundwater rights and SGMA California depends on groundwater...

What’s the Potential for Increased Groundwater Replenishment in California?

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Best of the Notebook Groundwater News Notebook News and Features

January 17, 2018

Panel at ACWA highlights state efforts to scale up Flood Managed Aquifer Recharge, survey on groundwater recharge in the Central Valley, and ACWA’s groundwater replenishment initiative With implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) fully underway, the newly formed...