On February 13, the San Diego County Water Authority’s Special Imported Water Committee held a workshop in a continuing series on the Bay Delta Conservation Plan in which Glen Farrel, Government Relations Manager for the Water Authority, gave an assessment...
At the March 25th meeting of the Metropolitan Water District’s Special Committee on the Bay-Delta, Dr. Chris Thornberg from Beacon Economics returned as a follow-up to his December presentation covered on the Notebook blog here: Maven’s Minutes: Evaluating the economics...
Water transfers can be an effective way to address shortages and add flexibility to the system, especially in dry years, but the process has often found to be cumbersome and the requirements often changing. Recognizing the importance of transfers, the...
This year’s 2014 California Water Policy Seminar Series, presented by the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences and the law school’s California Environmental Law & Policy Center, is focusing on the concept of ‘reconciliation ecology’, an emerging discipline based on the idea...
On March 11, the Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife and the Assembly Budget Subcommittee #3 on Resources and Transportation held a joint informational hearing on the management of California’s groundwater resources. Not all groundwater basins in California are poorly managed,...