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

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August 5, 2020
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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
361
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...

TIM QUINN: Forty Years of California Water Policy: What Worked, What Didn’t, and Lessons for the Future

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July 16, 2020
560
Tim Quinn spent more than ten years as the executive director of the Association of California Water Agencies and more than twenty years as the Deputy General Manager of the Metropolitan Water District of South... Read More...

FEATURE: The state of California’s environment

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July 1, 2020
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Friends of the River co-founder Mark Dubois and current Executive Director Eric Wesselman discuss the protections for California rivers and why they are optimistic for the future April 22 is Earth Day, which m... Read More...

CA WATER COMMISSION: Preparing California’s Water System for Climate Extremes

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June 17, 2020
266
In October 2019, the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) released the report, Priorities for California’s Water, which outlined California’s water management challenges and their top priorities for add... Read More...
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WATER LAW SYMPOSIUM: The battle over the raising of Shasta Dam

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April 8, 2020
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One of the long-running controversies in California water is the effort to raise Shasta Dam, a dam on the Sacramento River in Northern California which creates a 4.5 MAF reservoir, the largest in California.  T... Read More...

KERN COUNTY WATER SUMMIT: The magic water wand

Maven
April 1, 2020
581
If you had a magic wand that could give you unlimited funding, could change any law, write any new law, and/or modify any regulation, what would you do to improve California’s water?   That was the question po... Read More...

CA WATER LAW SYMPOSIUM: Federalism and Water under the Trump Administration: Has the Long Peace Come to an End?

Maven
February 12, 2020
1204
The California Water Law Symposium is on my short list of not-to-be-missed events on my yearly calendar.  The symposium is a collaborative student-run event where students from each law school organize a panel ... Read More...

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

Maven
December 18, 2019
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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...

FELICIA MARCUS: One Delta, one estuary–Connecting California through water

Maven
December 4, 2019
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In her address to the State of the Estuary conference, Felicia Marcus spoke about the connections of the Delta to all Californians and the importance of working together and more broadly to solve the challengin... Read More...

Navigating California’s new regulations for wetlands and state waters

Maven
October 30, 2019
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The Freeman Diversion Facility in Ventura County (Photo by DWR) California regulations protecting wetlands and state waters were approved by the State Water Resources Control Board and will take effect on M... Read More...

PERSPECTIVES: DWR Director Karla Nemeth on Oroville Dam, the Governor’s water resilience portfolio, Delta conveyance, the Voluntary Agreements, and more …

Lisa Beutler
October 17, 2019
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Sacramento River and Tower Bridge (Photo by DWR) Interview and write-up by Lisa Beutler, Stantec (Sacramento, CA).  This article appeared first in The Water Report and is reprinted here with permission. ... Read More...

CA WATER COMMISSION: DWR Director Karla Nemeth on the Department’s Strategic Plan, Delta conveyance

Maven
September 25, 2019
896
Aerial view looking South-West, of the Dutch Slough Tidal Marsh Restoration Project Photo by Ken James/DWR At the August meeting of the California Water Commission, Karla Nemeth, Director of the Department ... Read More...

SAC PRESS CLUB: Droughts, Tunnels & Clean Water: A Conversation on California Water Policy

Maven
September 5, 2019
1384
Aerial view looking South along Old River, in the center is Fay Island, part of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in San Joaquin County, California. Photo taken March 08, 2019.Ken James / California Depar... Read More...

MET WATER PLANNING & STEWARDSHIP COMM: Secretary Crowfoot talks about the water resilience portfolio, Delta conveyance, and more …

Maven
July 17, 2019
554
At the July meeting of Metropolitan’s Water Planning and Stewardship Committee meeting, the bulk of the meeting was taken up by a visit from Secretary of Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot who discussed the Govern... Read More...
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