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ACWA CONFERENCE: Commissioner Brenda Burman: “We are keeping our promises, and we are doing what we said we would do.  And we are not done.”

Maven
August 6, 2020
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At the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) virtual conference last week, one of the keynote speakers was the Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman.  Commissioner Burman has more than 25... Read More...

ACWA CONFERENCE: Chair Esquivel and Director Nemeth discuss their plans for 2020

Maven
August 5, 2020
369
At the ACWA's virtual conference held last week, the second keynote speaker session featured Joaquin Esquivel, Chair of the State Water Resources Control Board, and Karla Nemeth, Director of the Department of... Read More...

ACWA CONFERENCE: Secretary Wade Crowfoot highlights the principles and priorities of the Water Resilience Portfolio

Maven
August 4, 2020
459
Wade Crowfoot has been the Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency since January 2019 and oversees an agency of 19,000 employees charged with protecting and managing California's natural resource... Read More...

ACWA PANEL: Establishing groundwater allocations under SGMA

Maven
January 8, 2020
1024
As groundwater sustainability agencies prepare their plans to meet the requirements of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), they will likely utilize a variety of tools to achieve sustainability. F... Read More...

ACWA PANEL DISCUSSION: The building blocks of success in the Delta

Maven
December 18, 2019
511
DeDe D'Adamo, Karla Nemeth, and Susan Tatayon give their thoughts about going forward in the Delta in a panel discussion moderated by Ellen Hanak The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is the complex and fragile hub... Read More...

PANEL DISCUSSION: Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Legal Framework: ‘All the acronyms you need to know’

Maven
September 11, 2019
722
Panel of lawyers dive into the web of laws affecting water in the Delta: The state and federal endangered species acts, water quality control planning, the Delta Reform Act, best available science, and more ...... Read More...

SGMA IMPLEMENTATION: Groundwater sustainability goals and challenges

Maven
June 5, 2019
1312
Groundwater managers working in four critically-overdrafted basins discuss how their planning efforts are going In basins all over California, groundwater managers are focused on developing their groundwater... Read More...

PANEL DISCUSSION: What do the new water conservation and efficiency requirements mean for your water agency?

Maven
January 16, 2019
474
Water-wise landscape featuring drought tolerant plants at the Home and Landscape Expo; Photo by DWR California's changing climate requires residents to move beyond temporary emergency drought measures and a... Read More...

What’s the Potential for Increased Groundwater Replenishment in California?

Maven
January 17, 2018
1951
The Santa Ana River feeds adjacent groundwater recharge basins in Anaheim.Florence Low / California Department of Water Resources Panel at ACWA highlights state efforts to scale up Flood Managed Aquifer Recha... Read More...

PANEL: Legal issues associated with water conservation mandates

Maven
January 10, 2018
1357
As the legislature contemplates how to "Make Conservation a California Way of Life", a panel discusses some of the legal issues posed: How do mandates interplay with Reasonable Use? Could mandates be consider... Read More...

PANEL: Water agencies concerned about proposed expansion of ‘waters of the state’

Maven
December 14, 2017
877
Proposed definition of wetlands and procedures would greatly expand state permitting program, potentially affect recharge basins and constructed facilities, water agencies say “Listen carefully, be amazed, a... Read More...

ACWA CONFERENCE: The Department of Interior’s priorities for water

Maven
December 5, 2017
517
Deputy Assistant Austin Ewell speech at ACWA conference covers a wide range of topics, including the Water Fix, implementing the WIIN Act, streamlining the federal permitting process, and more ... In October o... Read More...

DELTA STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL: Overview of the Association of California Water Agencies Storage Integration Study

Maven
September 7, 2017
249
Study finds that by building new storage and integrating their operations with existing storage would increase water delivery by 400 TAF/year on average and over 700 TAF in dry years In July of this year, th... Read More...

PANEL DISCUSSION: D-1641: How the water quality control planning process works

Maven
August 30, 2017
476
Attorneys panel with Tess Dunham, Anna Brathwaite, and Larry Caster discusses the water quality control planning process, the San Joaquin flow proposal for Phase 1, and the federal preemption process At ACWA... Read More...

Headwaters Health: Obstacles and opportunities to advance forest management

Maven
July 19, 2016
464
Panel at ACWA's Spring Conference discusses forest restoration, biomass power plants, wildfires, and other upper watershed management issues Experts agree there is an urgent need to accelerate the pace and sca... Read More...
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