2014 Water Year in Review, Part 3: Groundwater, Delta smelt, and Sacramento’s response to the drought Maven Meetings December 5, 2014At the November meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, council members heard from numerous agency and water officials on how...
2014 Water Year in Review, part 2: Urban water conservation, agricultural impacts, water transfers Maven Meetings December 3, 2014At the November meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, council members heard from numerous agency and water officials on how...
2014 Water Year, part 1: A review of the third year of the drought: How the administration responded, an overview of SWP operations Maven Meetings December 2, 2014At the November meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, council members heard from numerous agency and water officials on how...
Dr. Dan Cayan: Climate Change and California’s Water: What Challenges Can We Anticipate? Maven Best of the Notebook December 1, 2014Dr. Dan Cayan is the director of the Climate Change Center at Scripps and also concurrently holds a research position...
A. G. Kawamura: “Food is a privilege, not a right” Maven FEATURED ARTICLES November 27, 2014A. G. Kawamura is owner and partner of Orange County Produce, LLC, and a board member of Western Growers Association....
Shopping for water: How the market can mitigate water shortages in the American West Maven Best of the Notebook November 19, 2014In October of 2014, the Hamilton Project and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment hosted a forum, New Directions...
Water Marketing, Groundwater Banking & Drought Management in California Maven Best of the Notebook November 17, 2014The University of California’s Agriculture and Natural Resources (UCANR) has developed a series of webinars titled Insights: Water and Drought...
Media call on latest BDCP Affordability and Financing Considerations report, plus a brief update on when to expect the recirculated BDCP docs Maven News and Features November 14, 2014This morning, the California Natural Resources Agency held a media call regarding the release of the report, The Bay Delta...
Delta Stewardship Council Chair Randy Fiorini on Actionable Science in the Delta Maven Science on the Notebook November 13, 2014As Chair of the Delta Stewardship Council, Randy Fiorini heads the agency that is charged with developing and implementing a...
California Water Quality Monitoring Council: Toward an Integrated Monitoring and Assessment Framework Maven Meetings November 12, 2014Monitoring and assessment are crucial to environmental decision making by helping managers track the outcomes of their management actions. However,...
Terraforming California 2.0: Dr. Anke Mueller-Solger on collaborating and cooperating in the Delta Maven Best of the Notebook November 11, 2014Dr. Anke Mueller-Solger is the Associate Director for Projects at the U.S. Geological Survey. Prior to joining the USGS last...
Deputy Secretary Michael Connor opens Bay Delta Science Conference: ‘Policy making and scientific research must advance hand in hand with each other’ Maven Science on the Notebook November 10, 2014The 8th Biennial Bay-Delta Science Conference, held October 28 through 30th, 2014 in Sacramento, brought together over 1000 scientists, managers...
Delta Stewardship Council: October update on the Delta Levee Prioritization Strategy Maven Meetings November 7, 2014At the October meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Supervising Engineer Dustin Jones provided the council with a monthly update...
Felicia Marcus: California Water: Where We Are, and Where We Ought to Go Maven Best of the Notebook November 5, 2014Each year, the Environmental Law Section of the California State Bar holds their annual conference at the Tenaya Lodge at...
Congressman George Miller on the Delta and water policy: “I think we’ve turned a bit of a corner.” Maven Best of the Notebook November 4, 2014On September 24th, the ‘Bay + Delta + Water: Better Together’ conference brought over 200 elected officials, agency leaders, and...