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Water contractors send emergency request to Jewell & Pritzker; want restrictions relaxed at pumps to capture runoff from impending storm events

March 26, 2014

The San Joaquin River Exchange Contractors, the San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority, and the Friant Water Authority have sent...

Planning and Conservation League Symposium: What’s next for the Delta?

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Best of the Notebook Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

March 26, 2014

“What’s next for the Delta? ‘Enquiring minds want to know,’” began Martha Davis, moderator for the closing plenary session of...

Capitol Weekly – A Conference on Water: Delta panel discusses drought in the Delta

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Best of the Notebook Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

March 25, 2014

Capitol Weekly’s A Conference on Water, held on February 20, 2014, brought together legislators, officials, and stakeholders to discuss some...

California Water Policy Seminar Series: ACWA’s Tim Quinn and the Nature Conservancy’s Jay Ziegler with management, economics and infrastructure perspectives on reconciliation ecology

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Best of the Notebook Delta science Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

March 24, 2014

This year’s 2014 California Water Policy Seminar Series, presented by the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences and the law...

Assembly joint informational hearing on California’s groundwater, part 3: Stakeholder perspectives on where should we go from here

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Groundwater News Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

March 21, 2014

On March 11, the Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife and the Assembly Budget Subcommittee #3 on Resources and Transportation held...

Radio transcript: Governor Jerry Brown talks water, budget, and High Speed Rail

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Delta Conveyance Project Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

March 21, 2014

In Tuesday’s edition of the radio show Here & Now, host Jeremy Hobson talks about the drought, and a little...

March issue of the San Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science now available

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Delta science

March 21, 2014

Volume 12, Issue 1 | March 2014 RESEARCH Agricultural Losses from Salinity in California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: Josué Medellín-Azuara, Richard E....

Assembly joint informational hearing on California’s groundwater, part 2: Elements of successful groundwater management

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Groundwater News Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

March 20, 2014

On March 11, the Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife and the Assembly Budget Subcommittee #3 on Resources and Transportation held...

Republican Congressmembers send letter to President Obama and Governor Brown: “The urgency and magnitude of the California drought demands that Federal and state agencies be directed to abandon their inflexible approach of strict regulatory requirements … “

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Policy and regulation

March 20, 2014

Republic House members have sent a letter to President Obama and Governor Brown requesting they take immediate action to direct...

Reactions, testimony, etc. from today’s House Natural Resources Committee field hearing in Fresno

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Policy and regulation

March 19, 2014

From the House Natural Resources Committee: “Today, the House Natural Resources Committee held an oversight field hearing in Fresno, CA...

Reaction to Congressmen Garamendi & LaMalfa’s proposed Sites Reservoir legislation:

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Policy and regulation

March 19, 2014

The announcement of legislation by Congressmembers Garamendi & LaMalfa to authorize a feasibility study and the construction of Sites Reservoir...

Congressmen Garamendi and LaMalfa announce Sites Reservoir water storage bill; Would help California prepare for future droughts

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Policy and regulation

March 19, 2014

From Congressman Garamendi’s office: Today, Congressmen John Garamendi (D-CA-03) and Doug LaMalfa (R-CA-01) announced the bipartisan Sacramento Valley Water Storage...