DAILY/WEEKLY DIGEST

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DAILY DIGEST, 5/24: Newsom urges aggressive action as historic drought looms over summer; CA Senate proposes $2 billion program to balance water supply and water rights; Tracking water storage for Sierra Nevada and Upper Colorado River Basins; Sustaining steelhead populations in the Bay Area’s backyard; and more …

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— [cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … MEETING: State Water Resources Control Board will meet beginning at 9:30am. Agenda items include consideration of a proposed resolution regarding a Drought-Related Emergency Regulation for Water Conservation, an update from the Delta Watermaster,...

WEEKLY WATER NEWS DIGEST for May 15-20: SGMA Implementation update: State Water Board prepares for intervention; Ag titan water feud in Kern County; Hurtado calls for a crackdown on water profiteering; and all the water news of the week

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Weekly Digest
A wrap-up of posts published on Maven’s Notebook this week … Note to readers: Sign up for weekly email service and you will receive notification of this post on Friday mornings.  Readers on daily email service can add weekly email...

DAILY DIGEST, 5/18: Farmers across state face new water cuts; Governor Newsom highlights state and local action to combat drought; Sites Reservoir: Does drought-prone California need another reservoir?; Ridgecrest: Groundwater Authority begins plan to import water; and more …

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Daily Digest
— [cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … MEETING: California Water Commission will meet beginning at 9:30am. Agenda items include consideration of Resolutions of Necessity for the Yolo Bypass Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Fish Passage Project (Big Notch Project); consideration of...

DAILY DIGEST, weekend edition: Water usage is up, but officials focused on wrong problem, say advocates; Drought could mean ‘devastation across the board’ for fowl on Pacific Flyway; Newsom’s proposed budget includes funding for drought; Cal Am not fazed by rejection of SoCal desal project; and more …

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Daily Digest
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] In California water news this weekend … California is in a water crisis, yet usage is way up. Officials are focused on the wrong problem, advocates say “California is facing a crisis. Not only are its reservoirs already at...

DAILY DIGEST, 5/13: Coastal Commission unanimously rejects Huntington Beach desal plant; Drought update: April showers bring … little relief; The good, bad and insipid in CA’s water conservation graphics; Lake Powell’s drought is part of a growing threat to hydropower everywhere; and more …

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— [cmtoc_table_of_contents] Special section:  California Coastal Commission unanimously rejects Huntington Beach desalination plant A salty dispute: California Coastal Commission unanimously...

DAILY DIGEST, 5/12: California regulators set to vote on desalination plant; Court of Appeal sides with parties seeking attorneys’ fees for challenge to California WaterFix; Which regions are saving the most — and least — water; Monterey has four affordable housing projects in the works, but not enough water to give; and more …

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Daily Digest
— [cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … MEETING: The California Coastal Commission will meet this morning beginning at 9am in Costa Mesa and virtually. The main agenda item is the Huntington Beach desalination plant. Click here to watch livestream. MEETING:...