VOICE OF SAN DIEGO: Blowing up the Water Authority isn’t off the table at LAFCO Voice of San Diego Planning and management September 10, 2025The group that rubber stamped a divorce from the agency plans to look at getting rid of the agency altogether....
LEGISLATIVE BRIEFING: UC Davis and WELL Water Governance Study Release Press Release/Notice Planning and management August 22, 2025Press release from Water Education for Latino Leaders (WELL): On August 20, 2025, Water Education for Latino Leaders (WELL), in...
SJV WATER: Lemoore farmers unhappy with lack of representation on groundwater agency SJV Water Groundwater News July 26, 2025By Monsserat Solis, SJV Water Growers in northwestern Kings County are fed up with a lack of representation on their...
EOS: Delegations drive One Water dialogues American Geophysical Union Planning and managementPolicy and regulation April 29, 2025By Grace Van Deelen, EOS On a summer morning, a storm dropped buckets of rain on the desert outside Tucson,...
FRESNOLAND: After years of political clashes, is this Central Valley community finally on a path to clean water? Fresnoland Planning and management March 11, 2025Efforts to bring clean water to East Orosi have progressed slowly in recent years, leaving residents living off bottled water...
SJV WATER: After a chaotic ending, the newly-formed Mid-Kings River GSA moves to fill advisory board seats SJV Water Groundwater News November 27, 2024By Monserrat Solis, SJV Water A Kings County groundwater agency that imploded last summer under accusations of secrecy and arrogance...
DELTA STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL: Integrating social sciences in the Delta Maven Notebook News and FeaturesPlanning and management March 16, 2023[cmtoc_table_of_contents] Integrating the social sciences into environmental science and management in the Delta can contribute to a better understanding of...
WEBINAR SUMMARY: Adaptive governance in the Delta Maven Delta scienceScience November 2, 2022On May 5 of 2022, the Delta Science Program hosted the third and final session of a webinar series focusing...
WEBINAR SUMMARY: Collaborative governance in the Delta Maven Delta scienceScience August 24, 2022In the spring of 2022, the Delta Science Program hosted a series of lunchtime webinars focused on governance in the...
WEBINAR SUMMARY: Environmental governance in the Delta Maven Delta scienceScience August 4, 2022In the spring of 2022, the Delta Science Program hosted a series of lunchtime webinars focused on governance in the...
GUEST ARTICLE: Wicked Is a Special Kind of Problem: What It Is and What to Do about It Lisa Beutler Commentary March 15, 2021This guest article was written by Lisa Beutler, Executive Facilitator at Stantec, and first appeared in the January 2021 issue...
SOCIETY & NATURAL RESOURCES JOURNAL: SGMA in CA: A Grand Experiment in Environmental Governance Maven Groundwater News December 12, 2020In this edition of the Society and Natural Resources Journal: Sustainable Groundwater Management in California: A Grand Experiment in Environmental...
REPORTS: Concurrent governance processes of SGMA; Comparing complexity in watershed governance; Challenges of using and interpreting GPCD Maven Groundwater NewsReports March 11, 2020Concurrent Governance Processes of California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act By Anita Milman and Michael Kiparsky California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA)...
CA WATER LAW SYMPOSIUM: Federalism and Water under the Trump Administration: Has the Long Peace Come to an End? Maven Best of the NotebookNotebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulationWater project operations February 12, 2020The California Water Law Symposium is on my short list of not-to-be-missed events on my yearly calendar. The symposium is...
California Water Plan Update 2018: Envisioning Statewide Water Sustainability Maven Notebook News and FeaturesPlanning and management November 29, 2017The update to the California Water Plan will be a much shorter and more succinct document than it’s predecessors –...