DAILY/WEEKLY DIGEST

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DAILY DIGEST, 2/15: Newsom suspends environmental laws to store more Delta water; Mono Lake Tribe seeks to assert its water rights in call for emergency halt of water diversions to Los Angeles; Harder’s Second try at killing ‘a zombie’; Does the US need a federal Department of Water?; and more …

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[cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … MEETING: California Water Commission beginning at 9:30am. Agenda items include Resolutions of Necessity for...

DAILY DIGEST, 2/14: Newsom signs executive order to increase statewide stormwater capture; DWR, Reclamation submit request to adjust water right permit conditions to conserve storage; California’s snowpack is melting faster than ever; Reclamation hopes for 100 percent water allocation; and more …

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[cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … MEETING: California Environmental Flows Workgroup from 10am to 12pm.  Agenda items include JEDI initiative,...

DAILY DIGEST, 2/13: Harder pushes back on Newsom’s embrace of Delta tunnel; A new strategy for drought: Customized water pricing; The effect of the Fall x2 outflow action on Delta smelt; Wall Street sees profits in dropping Colorado River levels; and more …

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[cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … VIRTUAL MEETING: Sacramento Regional Water Bank Stakeholder Forum from 6pm to 8pm.  The public is invited to weigh in on the proposed goals and objectives for the Sacramento Regional Water Bank, a groundwater storage...

DAILY DIGEST, 2/8: CA’s storms left behind a ‘generational snowpack.’; Storms could supercharge wildfire season; Dan Walters: Western states play game of chicken over Colorado River; Reclamation faces Solomonic choice in picking plan to save Colorado; and more …

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[cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … PUBLIC MEETING: Draft Funding Recommendation Water Desalination Grant Program – Proposition 1 Grants Continuous Application from 10am to 11am. DWR’s Water Desalination Grant Program has completed review of the grant applications submitted to the Continuous Application...

DAILY DIGEST, weekend edition: Grayson wonders if restored floodplain prevented disaster; Weekend storm to give way to pattern change; Central Valley groundwater sinking faster than ever; Shrinking Colorado River hands Biden his first climate brawl; and more …

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[cmtoc_table_of_contents] In California water news this weekend … Grayson wonders if restored floodplain prevented disaster “When devastating floods swept California last month, the community of Grayson – a town of 1,300 people tucked between almond orchards and dairy farms where...

DAILY DIGEST, 2/2: Despite an ‘incredible’ snowpack, drought not over; Water flushed to the Pacific during storms; Summer fire means winter melt; IID responds to six-state consensus on Colorado River; and more …

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[cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … WEBINAR: Flume Data Labs Household Water Use Index | 2022 Review from 10am to 11am.  Join Flume Data Labs, the company that brings connectivity and intelligence to residential water usage, as we present the...

DAILY DIGEST, 1/30: NASA SWOT mission to improve CA water management; Metropolitan installs flexible iron pipe on siphon that passes through the fault zone; CA drought threatens coho salmon populations; Deal or no deal (Colorado River edition); and more …

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[cmtoc_table_of_contents] In California water news today … NASA SWOT mission to improve water management in California “California has one of the most volatile hydrologic systems in the world, shifting from drought to flood in a matter of weeks. However, new...