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

July 16, 2020 897

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 536

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 327

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 1817

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 330

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 1933

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...

WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: Developing a water budget

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May 13, 2020 1035

With water availability being an important concern, water managers often use water budgets to quantify and manage water resources. A...

FEATURE: The state of the salmonids in California

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May 6, 2020 664

Webinar takes a deep dive into the state of salmon and steelhead, and provides recommendations for resiliency In 2005, the...

TED GRANTHAM: The evolution of environmental flows in California

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April 15, 2020 697

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 on the environmental consequences of the ways in...

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

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April 8, 2020 1231

One of the long-running controversies in California water is the effort to raise Shasta Dam, a dam on the Sacramento...

WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: Quantifying surface water depletion from groundwater pumping

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April 2, 2020 378

Understanding and conveying groundwater’s role in a changing world Surface water commonly is hydraulically connected to ground water, but the...

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

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March 26, 2020 522

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 Santa Cruz Mid-County Groundwater Agency balanced the...

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

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March 25, 2020 612

Californians rely on the state’s myriad of rivers and streams for things such as water supply, hydropower, recreation, fisheries, biodiversity,...

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

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February 12, 2020 1247

The California Water Law Symposium is on my short list of not-to-be-missed events on my yearly calendar. The symposium is...

WATER ASSOC. OF KERN COUNTY: The nuts and bolts of the CV-SALTS program

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January 29, 2020 575

Presentation at Kern County event discusses the implementation of the newly-adopted salt and nitrate management plan for the Central Valley On October 16, 2019 the State Water Resources Control Board voted to approve the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control...

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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

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

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?

WATER ASSOC. OF KERN COUNTY: The nuts and bolts of the CV-SALTS program