WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: SGMA Isn’t Working – When It’s Time to Adjudicate.  Wait, When is it Time?

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Best of the NotebookGroundwater NewsNotebook News and Features

December 9, 2020

Nick Jacobs is a shareholder with Somach Simmons & Dunn. who has been practicing law for about 20 years and...

WATER COMMISSION: Conveyance projects and the human right to water

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Notebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation

December 8, 2020

Panel discussion outlines challenges facing disadvantaged communities and small water systems The Water Resilience Portfolio directs the Water Commission to...

PRESS RELEASE: Delta Counties Urge Metropolitan Water District Board to Save Historic Delta Waterways by Rejecting Funding for Misguided Tunnel Conveyance Project

Delta Counties Coalition

Delta Conveyance Project

December 8, 2020

From the Delta Counties Coalition: The Delta Counties Coalition (DCC) warned members of the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) Board that...

NOTICE: Consideration for Adoption of Revisions to the Salt and Nitrate Control Program (CV-SALTS)

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Policy and regulation

December 5, 2020

From the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board: The Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board will be considering...

WATER COMMISSION: Conveyance projects panel discusses Imperial Valley to San Diego pipeline, “fish-friendly” Delta diversions, and more …

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Notebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation

December 3, 2020

Presentations highlight San Diego CWA’s Regional Water Conveyance System Study, addressing California Aqueduct subsidence, and the San Joaquin Valley Water...

EOS: “Thirstier” atmosphere will increase wildfire risk out West

American Geophysical Union

HydrologyWildfires and watersheds

December 2, 2020

New climate projections could inform long-term wildfire and water resources management strategies in California and Nevada. By Sarah Stanley, EOS...

DELTA ADAPTS: Preliminary findings from the first comprehensive climate change vulnerability assessment for the Delta

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Climate changeNotebook News and Features

December 2, 2020

Study assesses climate change risks to the Delta’s vulnerable communities, ecosystems, water supply, and flood management [cmtoc_table_of_contents] Delta Adapts: Creating...

THIS JUST IN … DWR Releases Initial State Water Project Allocation of 10%

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Current Conditions

December 1, 2020

From the Department of Water Resources:   With California off to a dry start for the water year, the California...

MONTHLY RESERVOIR REPORT for December 1st

Robert Shibatani

Current Conditions

December 1, 2020

Prepared exclusively for Maven’s Notebook by Robert Shibatani The first two months of the new 2020-2021 water-year (WY) have been...

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Website announcements

November 26, 2020

Thanksgiving is the perfect time to be thankful for all the amazing gifts we have been blessed with,and I am...

CA WATER COMMISSION: Addressing California Aqueduct subsidence; State Water Project Operations and Maintenance

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Notebook News and FeaturesWater project operations

November 24, 2020

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] At the November meeeting of the California Water Commission, Commissioners were briefed on subsidence issues with the California Aqueduct...

ESTUARY PEARLS: Salmon estimates, behavior, and disease; Fish passage structures, Another non-native species in the Delta, and more …

Estuary News Group

Delta scienceScience

November 21, 2020

In the latest issue of Estuary Pearls: As organizations and agencies scramble to preserve the Central Valley’s dwindling Chinook salmon...

SCIENCE PUBLICATION: Wetland Restoration: Contemporary Issues and Lessons Learned

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Delta science

November 21, 2020

From the Association of Wetland Managers: There is general agreement among restoration professionals that the science exists to achieve restoration...

CAL MATTERS: What happens when a rural area’s only well is contaminated?

Cal Matters

Water quality

November 19, 2020

By Rebecca Sohn, Cal Matters In the spring of 2013, Jocelyn Walters and her partners moved Nativearth, their small shoe...

WATER COMMISSION: Merced River Watershed Flood MAR Study

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Best of the NotebookGroundwater NewsNotebook News and Features

November 19, 2020

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] Kamyar Guivetchi, Manager of DWR’s Division of Planning has often referred to Flood Managed Aquifer Recharge (or Flood MAR)...