Conferences and Seminars

October 6, 2020 368

Every year, the Groundwater Resources Association of California selects two speakers for the David Keith Todd Lectureship, which named after...

WATER QUALITY: A basic primer on water quality regulation

September 9, 2020 790

[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

August 26, 2020 427

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] The Governor’s Water Resilience Portfolio Initiative underscores the need for communities to maintain and diversify water supplies and to...

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

August 19, 2020 509

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

ACWA CONFERENCE: Commissioner Brenda Burman: “We are keeping our promises, and we are doing what we said we would do. And we are not done.”

August 6, 2020 322

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] At the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) virtual conference last week, one of the keynote speakers was the...

ACWA CONFERENCE: Chair Esquivel and Director Nemeth discuss their plans for 2020

August 5, 2020 369

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] At the ACWA’s virtual conference held last week, the second keynote speaker session featured Joaquin Esquivel, Chair of the...

ACWA CONFERENCE: Secretary Wade Crowfoot highlights the principles and priorities of the Water Resilience Portfolio

August 4, 2020 464

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] Wade Crowfoot has been the Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency since January 2019 and oversees an agency...

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

July 22, 2020 531

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] The details of how a groundwater sustainability plan will be implemented are defined by the setting of sustainable management...

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

July 16, 2020 1130

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

July 8, 2020 561

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

GSA SUMMIT: Reflections on the 2020 GSP process

July 7, 2020 265

At the end of January of this year, the state’s critically overdrafted groundwater basins submitted their adopted groundwater sustainability plans...

FEATURE: The state of California’s environment

July 1, 2020 347

Friends of the River co-founder Mark Dubois and current Executive Director Eric Wesselman discuss the protections for California rivers and...

GROUNDWATER 101: The basics

June 24, 2020 3192

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

FEATURE: The state of the salmonids in California