Delta Archives ~ Page 29 of 41 ~ MAVEN'S NOTEBOOK

May 26, 2021

By Christine Souza, Ag Alert More signs of drought and tightening water supplies have arisen, in filings with the State...

CAL MATTERS COMMENTARY: Investment in Delta tunnel, Sites Reservoir will ensure water supply

Cal Matters

Commentary Delta Conveyance Project

May 24, 2021

Water agencies need to invest in infrastructure and plan for drought to diversify their water supply portfolio and increase reliability....

DELTA WATERMASTER UPDATE: Preparing for a dry year in the Delta; Addressing problems in the South Delta

Maven

Notebook News and Features Planning and management

March 10, 2021

At the February meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Watermaster Michael George updated the councilmembers on the efforts underway...

SCIENCE IN SHORT: Wall-to-Wall Sampling Via Remote Sensing

Maven

Science Podcasts

February 12, 2021

Invasive plants – the submerged and floating kind – clog nearly a third of the Delta’s waterways today. These alien...

PLANNING & CONSERVATION LEAGUE: The Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan: Where is it at?

Maven

Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

February 3, 2021

Panel at PCL’s Environmental Assembly focuses on the lack of progress on the Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan update and...

DELTA ISB: What we know and don’t know about the Delta food web

Maven

Best of the Notebook Delta science

January 14, 2021

The Delta Reform Act of 2009 established the Delta Independent Science Board (or Delta ISB), whose ten members are appointed...

DELTA ADAPTS: Climate change vulnerability assessment looks at climate impacts to Delta as a place, agriculture, recreation, and infrastructure

Maven

Climate change Notebook News and Features

January 12, 2021

Delta Adapts: Creating a Climate Resilient Future is the Delta Stewardship Council’s effort to conduct the first-ever climate change vulnerability...

DELTA WATERMASTER: Preparing for possible dry times ahead in the Delta

Maven

Notebook News and Features Water rights and water law

December 22, 2020

At the December meeting of the State Water Board, Delta Watermaster Michael George gave his semi-annual update to the Board. ...

PRESS RELEASE: Delta Counties Urge Metropolitan Water District Board to Save Historic Delta Waterways by Rejecting Funding for Misguided Tunnel Conveyance Project

Delta Counties Coalition

Delta Conveyance Project

December 8, 2020

From the Delta Counties Coalition: The Delta Counties Coalition (DCC) warned members of the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) Board that...

DELTA ADAPTS: Preliminary findings from the first comprehensive climate change vulnerability assessment for the Delta

Maven

Climate change Notebook News and Features

December 2, 2020

Study assesses climate change risks to the Delta’s vulnerable communities, ecosystems, water supply, and flood management [cmtoc_table_of_contents] Delta Adapts: Creating...

COMMENTARY/REBUTTAL AT CAL MATTERS: Delta tunnel project would secure California’s water future

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Commentary

November 2, 2020

The State Water Project’s 1960-era infrastructure is aging and needs to be upgraded to meet the climate challenges ahead in...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: California Slammed Over ‘Blank Check’ for Delta Tunnel Project

Courthouse News Service

Delta Conveyance Project

October 29, 2020

Lobbing another hurdle at California’s $16 billion plan to tunnel underneath the West Coast’s largest estuary, environmentalists on Thursday sued...

PRESS RELEASE: Lawsuit Challenges California’s $16 Billion Move to Fund Delta Tunnel Project

Center for Biological Diversity

Delta Conveyance Project

October 29, 2020

Revenue Bonds Would Lock in Funding Before Any Environmental Review From the Center for Biological Diversity: Five environmental groups sued...

MEETING: Delta Watermaster breaks down water use in the Delta, addresses implementation of reduced reliance on the Delta

Maven

Best of the Notebook Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

October 28, 2020

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] At the October 22nd meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Watermaster Michael George gave a detailed presentation on...

FEATURE: Fish predation on a landscape scale in the Delta

Maven

Delta science Fish and wildlife

October 14, 2020

Fisheries Biologist Cyril Michel discusses recent predator manipulation studies done in the Delta and efforts to develop a predictive model...