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April 17, 2017

Dear readers, It’s hard to believe that 10 years ago today, I started my very first California water news website...

ANNOUNCEMENT: Reclamation Announces 2017 Schedule for Release into Trinity River as Part of Restoration Program

April 14, 2017

The Bureau of Reclamation announced today that releases from Lewiston Dam into the Trinity River will increase on Saturday, April...

THIS JUST IN … State Water Project Deliveries Increased

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Current Conditions

April 14, 2017

State Water Project allocation 100% for North-of-Delta contractors; 85% for other contractors From the Department of Water Resources: With record...

CALIFORNIA WATER FIX: Ruling regarding rebuttal of Phase 1

State Water Board

Delta Conveyance Project

April 14, 2017

This ruling addresses the following issues pertaining to the Part 1 rebuttal phase of the water right change petition hearing...

THIS JUST IN … Northern Sierra Precipitation Sets Water Year Record

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Hydrology

April 13, 2017

Atmospheric Rivers Pushed Total to 89.7 Inches since October 1 From the Department of Water Resources: Never in nearly a...

PANEL DISCUSSION: Implications of SGMA implementation: Growers’ perspectives

Maven

Agriculture Best of the Notebook Groundwater News Notebook News and Features

April 13, 2017

How will sustainable groundwater management play out on the ground? Will land be fallowed? Can yields be somehow increased to...

NASA: Overpumping Reduces California’s Groundwater Storage

NASA/JPL

Groundwater News

April 12, 2017

A new study finds decades of overpumping groundwater in California’s Central Valley have irreversibly altered the aquifer and permanently reduced...

PANEL DISCUSSION: Implementing SGMA – How Are We Getting There?

Maven

Best of the Notebook Groundwater News Notebook News and Features

April 12, 2017

Panel presentations highlight how the Sacramento Valley, Madera County, Monterey County, and Ventura County are working to establish Groundwater Sustainability...

REACTIONS to Reclamation’s updated Central Valley Project allocation of 100% water supplies for South-of-Delta contractors

Maven

Current Conditions

April 12, 2017

Yesterday, the Bureau of Reclamation announced an updated Central Valley Project water allocation, giving full water supplies for south-of-Delta farmers. ...

THIS JUST IN … Reclamation Releases 100 Percent Water Supply Allocation for Central Valley Project Contractors South-of-Delta

Bureau of Reclamation News

Current Conditions

April 11, 2017

From the Bureau of Reclamation: The Bureau of Reclamation today announced an update to the 2017 water supply allocation for...

DR. JAY FAMIGLIETTI: Drought vs. Chronic Water Scarcity and Implications for Sustainability

Maven

Best of the Notebook Groundwater News Notebook News and Features

April 11, 2017

The Epic California Drought as Viewed from Space Dr. Jay Famiglietti is a hydrologist and a professor of earth system...

PUBLIC NOTICE: Proposal to accept funds from the California Department of Water Resources

Maven

ANNOUNCEMENTS

April 11, 2017

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District has posted Public Notice SPK-2017-00271 to www.spk.usace.army.mil/Media/RegulatoryPublicNotices.aspx This Public Notice announces the...

REACTIONS to Governor Brown’s lifting of the drought emergency and release of the final framework report on long-term conservation measures

Maven

Policy and regulation

April 10, 2017

Yesterday, Governor Jerry Brown lifted the drought emergency declaration for most of the state and state agencies released a final...

ANNOUNCEMENT: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Water Loss Audits and Water Loss Control Reporting

Maven

ANNOUNCEMENTS

April 8, 2017

The Department of Water Resources (Department) will conduct a public hearing at the time and place noted below to consider...

THIS JUST IN … State Releases Plan to Make Water Conservation a Way of Life

State Water Board

Policy and regulation

April 7, 2017

From the State Water Board: As Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. ended the drought state of emergency in most of...

Maven marks a milestone: Ten years of covering California water news

ANNOUNCEMENT: Reclamation Announces 2017 Schedule for Release into Trinity River as Part of Restoration Program

THIS JUST IN … State Water Project Deliveries Increased

CALIFORNIA WATER FIX: Ruling regarding rebuttal of Phase 1

THIS JUST IN … Northern Sierra Precipitation Sets Water Year Record

PANEL DISCUSSION: Implications of SGMA implementation: Growers’ perspectives

NASA: Overpumping Reduces California’s Groundwater Storage

PANEL DISCUSSION: Implementing SGMA – How Are We Getting There?

REACTIONS to Reclamation’s updated Central Valley Project allocation of 100% water supplies for South-of-Delta contractors

THIS JUST IN … Reclamation Releases 100 Percent Water Supply Allocation for Central Valley Project Contractors South-of-Delta

DR. JAY FAMIGLIETTI: Drought vs. Chronic Water Scarcity and Implications for Sustainability

PUBLIC NOTICE: Proposal to accept funds from the California Department of Water Resources

REACTIONS to Governor Brown’s lifting of the drought emergency and release of the final framework report on long-term conservation measures

ANNOUNCEMENT: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Water Loss Audits and Water Loss Control Reporting

THIS JUST IN … State Releases Plan to Make Water Conservation a Way of Life

DAILY DIGEST, 9/30: Kern County supervisor predicts “death of SGMA” after groundwater bill is tabled; From Fox Canyon to Mid-Kaweah: Insights into groundwater trading; Environmental restoration gets a boost in California; What to expect this water year in CA, Colorado River; and more …