“A conversation about water” with Jeffrey Kightlinger

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Delta Conveyance ProjectNotebook News and Features

July 31, 2016

Metropolitan General Manager answers questions about the California Water Fix and other issues at a recent Sacramento Bee forum Recently,...

The use – and misuse – of science in water resource policy and management

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Best of the NotebookDelta science

July 28, 2016

‘Normative science’ has a corrosive effect on the entire scientific enterprise, says Dr. Robert Lackey These days, scientists in environmental...

July update on the Water Storage Investment Program

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Notebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation

July 27, 2016

This month’s update covers the proposed revised schedule for development of the regulation, climate change analysis, the peer review process,...

Afternoon news flash: South of Delta water contractors avoid a shutdown at O’Neill Pumping Plant – for now …

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Notebook News and FeaturesWater project operations

July 22, 2016

San Luis Reservoir near record lows at 11% capacity With San Luis Reservoir reaching near record lows, south of Delta...

The latest issue of the San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science journal now available

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Delta science

July 21, 2016

Special issue includes the first five chapters of the State of Bay Delta Science 2016 and more … The latest...

California Water Fix: Paying for the Delta tunnels

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Delta Conveyance ProjectNotebook News and Features

July 20, 2016

At Capitol Weekly’s Water 2016 conference, a panel discusses the fiscal impacts of the California Water Fix One the largest...

Headwaters Health: Obstacles and opportunities to advance forest management

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Notebook News and FeaturesPolicy and regulation

July 19, 2016

Panel at ACWA’s Spring Conference discusses forest restoration, biomass power plants, wildfires, and other upper watershed management issues Experts agree...

California’s water leaders rely on Maven’s Notebook… and Maven’s Notebook relies on you!

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Website announcements

July 17, 2016

Your support is needed to help keep this critical resource in operation The drought shows no signs of abating, and...

Update on DWR’s Reservoir Reoperation Study

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Notebook News and FeaturesWater project operations

July 13, 2016

DWR’s Ajay Goyal tells the Delta Stewardship Council that there are benefits to reoperation of the state’s system, but they...

CASGEM Report: DWR/Local Groundwater Monitoring Partnership Expands and Improves

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Groundwater News

July 13, 2016

From the Department of Water Resources: The latest update on California’s efforts to track groundwater shows that 94 percent of...

This just in … State, Federal Agencies Launch Integrated, Multi-Pronged Effort to Help Delta Smelt

CA Natural Resources Agency

Policy and regulation

July 12, 2016

Strategies Aimed at Improving Survival of Endangered Fish From the California Natural Resources Agency: Under a comprehensive strategy released today,...

California Water Fix and summertime water operations discussed at Metropolitan committee meeting

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Delta Conveyance ProjectNotebook News and Features

July 12, 2016

The Special Committee on the Bay Delta hears an update on the California Water Fix project, including the upcoming hearings,...

This just in … Westlands Water District and the San Luis & Delta Mendota Water Authority file suit against Reclamation

Westlands Water District

Water project operations

July 8, 2016

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Fails to Consider the Environmental Impacts of Biological Opinions Which Have Been Devastating Communities, they say...

Delta smelt symposium, part 4: Panel discussion: What is the path forward among considerable uncertainty?

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Delta scienceFish and wildlifeNotebook News and Features

July 8, 2016

Panel of experts share their visions and options for the future of the Delta and longfin smelt Coverage of the...

Delta smelt symposium, part 3: The path forward: Climate change, recovery planning, and restoration

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Delta scienceFish and wildlifeNotebook News and Features

July 7, 2016

Presenters discuss climate change, extinction, artificial propagation and stocking, and tidal marsh restoration Coverage of the Delta and longfin smelt...