Posts

June 5, 2019

Groundwater managers working in four critically-overdrafted basins discuss how their planning efforts are going In basins all over California, groundwater...

CA WATER COMMISSION: DWR’s Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment

Maven

Climate change Notebook News and Features

May 30, 2019

Assessment looks at six categories of vulnerability: wildfire, extreme heat, sea level rise, long-term persistent hydrologic changes, short-term extreme hydrologic...

MET BAY-DELTA COMMITTEE: Update on Delta conveyance

Maven

Delta Conveyance Project Notebook News and Features

May 29, 2019

At the May meeting of the Metropolitan Special Committee on the Bay Delta, Steve Arakawa, Bay Delta Initiatives Manager, updated...

ELLEN HANAK: Water and the Future of the San Joaquin Valley

Maven

Groundwater News Notebook News and Features

May 29, 2019

Ellen Hanak delivers four priorities for managing the implementation of SGMA in the San Joaquin Valley The San Joaquin Valley...

US FWS: “Jump Start” winter-run Chinook salmon return to Battle Creek

US Fish and Wildlife Service

Fish and wildlife

May 22, 2019

By the US Fish and Wildlife Service Wildlife and water management officials are heralding the early returns of a special...

THIS JUST IN … Reclamation updates 2019 Central Valley Project South-of-Delta water allocations

Bureau of Reclamation News

Current Conditions

May 22, 2019

South of Delta ag now at 70%, up from 65% From the Bureau of Reclamation: The Bureau of Reclamation Wednesday...

ELLEN HANAK: Managing Drought in a Changing Climate: Four Essential Reforms

Maven

Best of the Notebook Notebook News and Features Planning and management Policy and regulation

May 22, 2019

Climate change is having a profound impact on California’s water resources, as evidenced by greater weather extremes, reduced snowpack, higher...

CA WATER COMMISSION: Feather River Fish Hatchery

Maven

Fish and wildlife Notebook News and Features

May 16, 2019

The Feather River Fish Hatchery is a State Water Project facility that was built in conjunction with the construction of...

CALIFORNIA WATER POLICY CONFERENCE: Tribal Groundwater Rights and SGMA: A New Underlying Tension?

Maven

Best of the Notebook Groundwater News Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

May 15, 2019

Panel discussion moderated by DWR Tribal Advisor Anecita Agustinez discusses tribal involvement in GSAs, the benefits of tribal participation in...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: California Sues to Sink Planned Expansion of Shasta Dam

Courthouse News Service

Policy and regulation

May 14, 2019

Up against the Trump administration and the nation’s largest agricultural water supplier, California’s attorney general and a coalition of fishing...

THIS JUST IN … Attorney General Becerra Sues Westlands Water District to Block Unlawful Shasta Dam Project

CA Attorney General

Policy and regulation

May 14, 2019

From the Office of the Attorney General: California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has filed a lawsuit to block Westlands Water District (Westlands)...

LETTER: Senator Feinstein praises Newsom decision to support a single Delta tunnel project

Legislator/Elected Official

Delta Conveyance Project

May 14, 2019

“I believe it is critical that California build a single tunnel to improve Delta conveyance,” she says. Last week, Senator...

Interview with Wade Crowfoot: Implementing Newsom’s “One California” portfolio approach for water

Lisa Beutler

Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

May 14, 2019

In perhaps the most in-depth interview for water wonks yet, Lisa Beutler, Senior Principal with Stantec, sits down with Secretary...

CAL MATTERS: Weakling or bully? The battle over CEQA, the state’s iconic environmental law

Cal Matters

Policy and regulation

May 13, 2019

Inside the Capitol’s corridors and pro-development quarters around the state, the California Environmental Quality Act is increasingly disparaged as a...

CALIFORNIA WATER POLICY CONFERENCE: Reasonable Use or Waste: A Developing Dichotomy

Maven

Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation Water rights and water law

May 8, 2019

Panel discussion explores the evolution of the doctrine of reasonable use and considers how the doctrine will, or will not,...