Voluntary agreements Archives ~ Page 2 of 3 ~ MAVEN'S NOTEBOOK

December 20, 2023

By Christine Souza, Ag Alert California water officials are working on an updated plan to improve conditions for declining fish...

AG ALERT: Districts agree to collaborate on Tuolumne River

Ag Alert

Policy and regulation

December 16, 2022

By Christine Souza, Ag Alert Modesto Irrigation District, Turlock Irrigation District and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission have signed...

GUEST COMMENTARY AT CAL MATTERS: Broad-based buy-in is key to Bay-Delta water plan

Cal Matters

Commentary

September 12, 2022

A broad coalition of interests support the Newsom administration’s call for bold actions to manage the water flowing through the...

AG ALERT: Newsom warns of water woes as Delta debate roils

Ag Alert

Planning and management

August 17, 2022

By Christine Souza, Ag Alert Gov. Gavin Newsom sounded an alarm last week as he announced a strategy to capture...

FIVE QUESTIONS: Jon Rosenfield, Senior Scientist at the Baykeeper and longtime Delta scientist

Maven

Delta Conveyance Project Ecosystems Notebook News and Features

July 19, 2022

After completing degrees from Cornell University, University of Michigan, and the University of New Mexico, Dr. Jon Rosenfield returned to...

ESTUARY NEWS: Reorienting to Salmon Recovery

Estuary News Group

Delta science Fish and wildlife Notebook News and Features

June 13, 2022

by Alastair Bland, Estuary News Group The days when salmon and steelhead teemed in California’s coastal watersheds faded away last...

AG ALERT: Local solutions central to water forum

Ag Alert

Agriculture Planning and management

May 11, 2022

By Christine Souza, Ag Alert Facing a third year of drought, leadership from county Farm Bureaus, spanning all regions of...

COMMENTARY: Balanced approach to water needed for farms, fish

Ag Alert

Commentary Ecosystems

May 4, 2022

By Justin Fredrickson, Ag Alert Project operators recently explained unprecedented emergency plans for cold-water temperature management to support endangered salmon...

COMMENTARY: Improved data on protecting salmon can help farms

Ag Alert

Agriculture Commentary Fish and wildlife

April 6, 2022

By Mike Wade, California Farm Water Coalition Farms require water to grow the healthy local food supply we depend on....

AG ALERT: Water plan announced for habitat, farms

Ag Alert

Policy and regulation

April 6, 2022

By Christine Souza, Ag Alert A $2.6 billion plan to improve water quality for salmon and native fish in the...

DAN WALTERS: California water war peace treaty? Not quite

Cal Matters

Commentary Planning and management

April 4, 2022

Gov. Gavin Newsom claims progress on settling California’s decades-long conflict over water allocation but it’s a partial deal at best...

AG ALERT: Flows to increase; water districts cry foul

Ag Alert

Policy and regulation

November 3, 2021

By Christina Souza The Newsom administration has informed regional water districts that it will move forward with a plan to...

YOSEMITE LAW CONFERENCE: Take me to the river: Evolving frameworks for environmental flows

Maven

Best of the Notebook Ecosystems Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

March 24, 2021

Integrating consumptive use with environmental flows is a core challenge for water management. Regulatory methods for protecting instream flows have...

NOTICE: Posting of preliminary modeling information related to potential voluntary agreement for updates/implementation of the Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan

State Water Board

ANNOUNCEMENTS

November 23, 2019

From the State Water Board: This is to advise interested parties that provisional modeling information related to a potential voluntary...

THIS JUST IN … State Agencies Lay Out Actions to Protect Endangered Species and Meet State Water Need

CA Natural Resources Agency

Water project operations

November 21, 2019

DWR issued draft Environmental Impact Report today; Agencies also intend to file litigation against federal government Newsom administration continues to...