Fran Spivy-Weber on sustainability initiatives and the California Water Action Plan Maven Speeches and profiles January 20, 2015Fran Spivy-Weber talks about the statewide sustainability initiatives included in the California Water Action Plan, and ends with the suggestion...
Eric Garner on the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act: History in the making or another dead end? Maven Best of the Notebook January 5, 2015On January 1st, the new Sustainable Groundwater Management Act took effect. The statewide regulation of groundwater is one of the...
Celeste Cantu: A 21st-century relationship with water Maven FEATURED ARTICLES January 1, 2015The 21st Century delivers unprecedented challenges to water, key to life, economy and the environment. Unless we examine our relationship with...
Senator Darrell Steinberg on legislative leadership: Getting to a two-thirds vote on the water bond and other seemingly impossible missions Maven Best of the Notebook December 29, 2014At the 2014 fall conference of the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA), the keynote speaker at Wednesday’s luncheon was...
Peter Gleick: Solutions in a world of peak water limits Maven FEATURED ARTICLES December 25, 2014For one week each October, Chicago Ideas Week brings together some of the world’s most outstanding speakers to present their...
Craig Wilson, the first Delta watermaster, reflects on his four years in office Maven FEATURED ARTICLES December 23, 2014Just last week, the State Water Resources Control Board appointed Michael George to be the new Delta Watermaster. He’ll be...
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....
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...
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...
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...
In his own words … Governor Brown talks water at Stanford conference: “This is not something for a flash in the pan; this is not for a one term Governor; this is really the work of a four-term governor” Maven FEATURED ARTICLES October 21, 2014Yesterday,the Hamilton Project and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment held a conference at Stanford titled, New Directions for...
Metropolitan’s Jeff Kightlinger speaks to Los Angeles business community at Townhall LA Maven Speeches and profiles October 2, 2014The September 22nd luncheon meeting of TownHall Los Angeles featured Jeffrey Kightlinger, General Manager and CEO of the Metropolitan Water...
Jay Famiglietti at TEDx: Can We End the Global Water Crisis? Maven Speeches and profiles September 1, 2014In May of 2013, Jay Famiglietti, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, and Founding Director of the UC...
