YOSEMITE ENVIRO LAW CONFERENCE: Tribal Water Rights and Resources in a Changing Climate Maven Best of the NotebookNotebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation December 16, 2020From the Klamath waters to the Western desert valleys, recent court rulings highlight the important and evolving role of tribal...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: Feds Defend Permanent Water Contracts to Benefit Agriculture Courthouse News Service Policy and regulation December 10, 2020Defending the decision to give farm irrigation districts permanent access to low-cost, federally pumped water in California, a Justice Department...
PUBLICATION: Decolonization: Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water Maven Policy and regulation June 5, 2020Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society is a journal that ‘seeks to explore the relationships between knowledges and tears down the...
WATER LAW SYMPOSIUM: The battle over the raising of Shasta Dam Maven Best of the NotebookNotebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation April 8, 2020One of the long-running controversies in California water is the effort to raise Shasta Dam, a dam on the Sacramento...
CA WATER COMMISSION: Delta Conveyance update; Tribal engagement in the Delta Conveyance process Maven Delta Conveyance ProjectNotebook News and Features February 27, 2020At the February meeting of the California Water Commission, commissioners heard an update on the Delta conveyance project, and a...
ANECITA AGUSTINEZ, DWR TRIBAL POLICY ADVISOR: The Language of Water Maven Best of the NotebookNotebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation January 14, 2020This commentary is based on speakers notes from an ACWA Talk given by Anecita Agustinez at the ACWA Fall Conference...
CALIFORNIA WATER POLICY CONFERENCE: Tribal Groundwater Rights and SGMA: A New Underlying Tension? Maven Best of the NotebookGroundwater NewsNotebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation May 15, 2019Panel discussion moderated by DWR Tribal Advisor Anecita Agustinez discusses tribal involvement in GSAs, the benefits of tribal participation in...
DWR: Strengthening partnerships: Tribal water summit brings together Tribes, state, and federal partners Department of Water Resources (DWR) Policy and regulation October 1, 2018By Anecita Agustinez, Tribal Policy Advisor, DWR The California Department of Water Resources sponsored the 2018 statewide Tribal Water Summit...
GUEST COMMENTARY: Indian Water Settlements, the Media and the Future of Western Rivers Guest Contributor Commentary June 7, 2018“I believe historians will look back at the current Water Settlement Era as the second big rip-off of the Indigenous...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: Tribe fights over water allotment in Arizona Courthouse News Service Colorado River March 30, 2017A small Indian reservation that’s become a major economic force in the desert south of Phoenix has sued the Central...
Panel discussion: “Fixing” California’s water rights system Maven Best of the NotebookNotebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulationWater rights and water law May 25, 2016Panel of prominent attorneys discusses how the state’s water rights system performed in the drought and what changes, if any,...
California Water Commission hears an update on the Department of Water Resources Tribal Consultation Program Maven Notebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation March 12, 2014The relationship between Native Americans and the federal government is a distinctive political one that has been set forth in...
