DAILY DIGEST, 5/13: Delta tunnel advisory committee working through pandemic; Coalition urges Congress to fund critical water needs amid pandemic; Reactions to preliminary injunction; Drought, water shortages return to much of state; and more … Maven Daily Digest May 13, 2020ONLINE MEETING: Healthy Watersheds Partnership from 9:30am to 11:30am. Agenda items include a HWP Portal Webpage Update and a Watershed Assessment...
DAILY DIGEST, 5/12: Judge temporarily blocks Trump’s California water plan; LAO Report looks at pandemic’s effect on the CA economy; Will drip replace overhead irrigation in farm fields?; Climate models got hotter. Why they might be overshooting; and more … Maven Daily Digest May 12, 2020FREE WEBINAR: Groundwater Sustainability Plans: What We Now Know and What is Yet to be Learned from 11am to 12pm. ...
DAILY DIGEST, 5/11: Trump’s latest comments on California water; Voluntary agreements derailment frustrating with water fight; How reliable are Groundwater Sustainability Plans?; Attempted cyberattack highlights vulnerability of global water infrastructure; and more … Maven Daily Digest May 11, 2020Trump’s wild rant about California water transcribed (and translated): Dan Bacher writes, “Donald Trump’s recent rant about California water, based...
DAILY DIGEST, weekend edition: Research suggests origin of Salton Sea not ‘accidental’; It’s time to plan for drier Western rivers; Reclamation seeks input on proposed Friant-Kern Canal capacity fixes; and more … Maven Daily Digest May 10, 2020 Well-known Salton Sea origin story questioned by new research, suggesting it wasn’t ‘accidental’: “The origin of California’s largest lake...
DAILY DIGEST, 5/8: Judge throws water on California bid to slow Delta pumping; Fox Canyon water market goes live; How do salmon always find their way home?; Phosphorus in our pee — the new gold?; and more … Maven Daily Digest May 8, 2020Delta Independent Science Board Teleconference Meeting from 9am to 1pm. Agenda items include the Delta Lead Scientist’s report which will...
DAILY DIGEST, 5/7: While Calif.’s water wars head to court, Feds show they’re still at the table; Water rate hike in rural town becomes tax battle royale; Prediction tool shows how forest thinning may increase snowpack; Regulating microplastics in drinking water; and more … Maven Daily Digest May 7, 2020WEBINAR: Implementation Guidance for the State Wetland Definition and Procedures for the Discharges of Dredged or Fill Material to Waters...
DAILY DIGEST, 5/6: The state of the salmonids in California; Why not a western alignment for Delta conveyance?; Term 91 curtailments expected; other water rights curtailments unlikely; State Water Board adopts safe and affordable drinking water fund policy; and more … Maven Daily Digest May 6, 2020WEBINAR: Lagunitas Creek Habitat Restoration from 10am to11am. This webinar will focus on The Lagunitas Creek restoration project that was...
DAILY DIGEST, 5/5: Delta Blues; Farmers hijack community water access despite groundwater act, activists say; Including water investments in infrastructure package challenging; May temp and precip outlook; and more … Maven Daily Digest May 5, 2020The State Water Resources Control Board meets beginning at 9:30am. Agenda items include consideration of an MOU with CalTrans for...
DAILY DIGEST, 5/4: Billions in coronavirus aid not enough, say farmers; Dan Walters: State budget will take a very big hit; Heat, winds later this week fuel wildfire concerns; and more … Maven Daily Digest May 4, 2020via GIPHY Billions in coronavirus aid will go to farms. But farmers say it’s not enough to keep them afloat: ...
DAILY DIGEST, weekend edition: Ag groups ask Newsom to relax rules restricting water supplies; States sue EPA over rollback of Clean Water Rules; April Delta Conveyance Project update; Are almonds really as sustainable as we think, or just a waste of water?; and more … Maven Daily Digest May 3, 2020Agricultural organizations write Newsom, urging him to relax rules restricting water supplies: “To ensure next year’s food supply … California’s...
DAILY DIGEST, 5/1: Thin Sierra snowpack heralds expanding drought; Dry year, not politics, behind 15% water allocation; Can CA’s kelp forests be saved?; Which type of billion-dollar weather disaster has occurred most frequently in each state since 1980; and more … Maven Daily Digest May 1, 2020The Delta Stewardship Council will meet beginning at 9am to consider authorizing to Commence California Environmental Quality Act Review of...
DAILY DIGEST, 4/30:California water wars heat up with multiple lawsuits filed; A recap of all the letters and lawsuits; State Water Board hosts virtual workshop on chromium-6; Ranchers sue Trump administration, arguing water rollback is federal overreach; and more … Maven Daily Digest April 30, 2020Delta Stewardship Council meets beginning at 9am. Agenda items include the Lead Scientist’s report, an update from the Delta Independent...
DAILY DIGEST, 4/29: Bernhardt: Newsom’s water gambit “potentially unlawful”; State’s low water allocation prompts frustration, suspicion; The world is on lockdown. So where are all the carbon emissions coming from?; and more … Maven Daily Digest April 29, 2020WEBINAR: Carbon is not the Enemy – Ecological Restoration Through the Soil Carbon Sponge from 10am to 11am: Brittney Clements,...
DAILY DIGEST, 4/28: Trump opens floodgates, and acrimony swamps Calif.; New research looks at farmers’ perception of fairness in SGMA implementation; Fishing and conservation groups say Westlands federal water contract deal is illegal; and more … Maven Daily Digest April 28, 2020 Delta Science Needs virtual discussion from 9:15am to 10:15am: In preparation for the Delta Science Needs workshop, the Delta...
DAILY DIGEST, 4/27: What’s flushed today can be a problem months from now; Researchers retracing the steps of a century-old expedition to see how CA’s birdlife has changed; From meadow to marsh, habitats may take a hit during pandemic; and more … Maven Daily Digest April 27, 2020WEBINAR: Climate Change and COVID-19: Can this crisis shift the paradigm? from 12pm to 1pm. This conversation will feature Berkeley...
