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WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: SGMA Isn’t Working – When It’s Time to Adjudicate. Wait, When is it Time?

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December 9, 2020 444

Nick Jacobs is a shareholder with Somach Simmons & Dunn. who has been practicing law for about 20 years and...

WATER COMMISSION: Merced River Watershed Flood MAR Study

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November 19, 2020 477

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] Kamyar Guivetchi, Manager of DWR’s Division of Planning has often referred to Flood Managed Aquifer Recharge (or Flood MAR)...

MEETING: Delta Watermaster breaks down water use in the Delta, addresses implementation of reduced reliance on the Delta

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October 28, 2020 427

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] At the October 22nd meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Watermaster Michael George gave a detailed presentation on estimating water use in the Delta, something he acknowledged doesn’t matter much when there’s plenty of water in the system,...

FEATURE: How dynamic are property rights in water?

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October 21, 2020 626

Professor Holly Doremus is a leading scholar and teacher in the areas of environmental law, natural resources law, and law...

WATER QUALITY: A basic primer on water quality regulation

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September 9, 2020 766

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] In 2014, California passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (or SGMA), requiring local agencies to be formed and groundwater...

ACWA CONFERENCE: Adapting to Flood, Fire, and Drought: A Case Study of the American River

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August 26, 2020 409

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] The Governor’s Water Resilience Portfolio Initiative underscores the need for communities to maintain and diversify water supplies and to protect and enhance natural environments to prepare for the impacts of climate change. At ACWA’s virtual conference held in July...

GSA SUMMIT: Addressing environment, disadvantaged communities, and domestic wells in the 2022 Groundwater Sustainability Plans

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August 19, 2020 505

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] The groundwater sustainability plans that were submitted to the Department of Water Resources in January of 2020 were the...

DAM REMOVAL UPDATE: Klamath Dams, Matilija Dam, and the Potter Valley Project

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August 12, 2020 2810

The California Advisory Committee on Salmon and Steelhead Trout (CAC) was re-established by the Legislature in 1983 in response to...

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

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July 22, 2020 525

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] 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 technical analyses to perform, data gaps yet to...

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

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July 16, 2020 1044

Tim Quinn spent more than ten years as the executive director of the Association of California Water Agencies and more...

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

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July 8, 2020 552

The implementation phase of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act has now begun for the basins designated as critically-overdrafted. Getting to...

FEATURE: The state of California’s environment

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July 1, 2020 343

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 marks the anniversary of the birth of...

GROUNDWATER 101: The basics

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June 24, 2020 2654

Dr. Thomas Harter provides a basic understanding of groundwater – what it is, how much groundwater is out there, how...

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

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June 17, 2020 353

In October 2019, the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) released the report, Priorities for California’s Water, which outlined California’s...

FEATURE: Water rights 101

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June 3, 2020 2768

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 system found elsewhere in the West with the result...

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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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Felicia Marcus on the California Delta: Convergence or Collision?

WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: SGMA Isn’t Working – When It’s Time to Adjudicate. Wait, When is it Time?

WATER COMMISSION: Merced River Watershed Flood MAR Study

MEETING: Delta Watermaster breaks down water use in the Delta, addresses implementation of reduced reliance on the Delta

FEATURE: How dynamic are property rights in water?

WATER QUALITY: A basic primer on water quality regulation

ACWA CONFERENCE: Adapting to Flood, Fire, and Drought: A Case Study of the American River

GSA SUMMIT: Addressing environment, disadvantaged communities, and domestic wells in the 2022 Groundwater Sustainability Plans

DAM REMOVAL UPDATE: Klamath Dams, Matilija Dam, and the Potter Valley Project

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