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DPIIC: The CVPIA and the state’s Incidental Take Permit: Ecosystem-based Management in the Delta

Maven
July 29, 2020
263
The Delta Stewardship Council established the Delta Plan Interagency Implementation Committee (DPIIC) after the adoption of the Delta Plan in 2013.  The Committee is comprised of high-ranking members of 18 ... Read More...

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

Maven
June 17, 2020
297
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...

WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: Developing a water budget

Maven
May 13, 2020
661
With water availability being an important concern, water managers often use water budgets to quantify and manage water resources.  A water budget is an accounting of the rates of the inflows, outflows, and cha... Read More...

CA WATER COMMISSION: Update on State Water Project operations

Maven
January 2, 2020
436
An aerial overview of Lake Oroville and the reconstructed Lake Oroville main spillway and emergency spillway at the Butte County, California site. Photo taken June 7, 2019.Photo by Florence Low / DWR Coodinat... Read More...

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

Maven
December 18, 2019
505
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...

METROPOLITAN WATER PLANNING & STEWARDSHIP COMMITTEE: USFWS Regional Director Paul Souza explains the biological opinions

Maven
November 13, 2019
896
Paul Souza is the Regional Director of the Pacific Southwest division of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, which covers California, Nevada, and the part of Oregon that includes the Klamath Basin.  At the Novemb... 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
1220
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...

Draft environmental documents for the long-term operation of the Central Valley Project and State Water Project, plus an update on the biological opinions

Maven
August 6, 2019
706
Aerial view looking East along San Joaquin River in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Photo by Ken James / DWR Explainer post on what these environmental documents are all about and how they interface w... Read More...

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

Maven
July 17, 2019
555
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...

ROBERT SHIBATANI: Are California’s Water Operations as Efficient as Claimed?

Robert Shibatani
June 18, 2019
427
Part II: How Much Water Was Lost this Spring 2019? This commentary was written by Robert Shibatani. In Part I of this series, we looked at the daily operations of Folsom Reservoir this past winter from Janu... Read More...

PERSPECTIVES: Interview with Susan Tatayon, Chair of the Delta Stewardship Council

Lisa Beutler
June 13, 2019
394
Ms. Tatayon discusses the role of the Delta Stewardship Council, her goals as chair, and the Delta Plan 5 year review This article was written by Lisa Beutler; it appeared first in The Water Report and is repu... Read More...

GUEST COMMENTARY: Are California’s Water Operations as Efficient as Claimed?

Robert Shibatani
June 4, 2019
459
With heavy storms in the forecast, water is released from Folsom Dam as a precautionary measure in December of 2010. Part I: How Much Water Was Lost this Winter 2019? This post was written by Robert Shibatan... Read More...

ELLEN HANAK: Managing Drought in a Changing Climate: Four Essential Reforms

Maven
May 22, 2019
679
Aerial view at Lake Oroville showing low water level, July 20, 2015. (DWR) Climate change is having a profound impact on California’s water resources, as evidenced by greater weather extremes, reduced snowp... Read More...

Interview with Wade Crowfoot: Implementing Newsom’s “One California” portfolio approach for water

Lisa Beutler
May 14, 2019
2566
In perhaps the most in-depth interview for water wonks yet, Lisa Beutler, Senior Principal with Stantec, sits down with Secretary of Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot and asks him about voluntary agreements, inst... Read More...

ERNEST CONANT: Federal priorities for Reclamation Mid-Pacific Region for 2019

Maven
April 17, 2019
517
Reclamation Mid-Pacific Regional Director talks about progress made in implementing the directives in the Presidential Memo At the Friant Water Authority’s Annual Dinner held in Bakersfield last week, the keyn... Read More...
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