California Water Policy Seminar Series

June 11, 2015

Maurice Hall, Thomas Harter, and Professor Richard Frank discuss the connection between groundwater and surface water using examples from the...

Groundwater Problems and Prospects #6: The role of the state in implementing the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act

April 16, 2015

DWR’s David Gutierrez and the State Water Board’s Michael Lauffer discuss the carrot and stick role of the state in...

Groundwater problems and prospects, part 5: Groundwater management practices for local sustainability

April 9, 2015

California’s new historic groundwater legislation, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, requires local agencies and stakeholders to come together to from...

Groundwater problems and prospects, part 4: Toward groundwater sustainability planning in an agro-urban basin

April 2, 2015

Tim O’Halloran discusses the challenges of implementing the new groundwater legislation on the local level The provisions of the Sustainable...

Groundwater problems and prospects #3: Sharing groundwater: Legal issues and challenges

March 26, 2015

Attorney David Aladjem and Professor Richard Frank explain the substantive provisions of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act California Water Policy...

Groundwater Problems and Prospects, Part 2: The story behind the passage of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act

March 19, 2015

Assembly policy consultant Tina Cannon Leahy, ACWA’s Cindy Tuck, and the California Water Foundation’s Kate Williams talk about the unusual...

Groundwater Problems and Prospects, part 1: An overview of groundwater

March 12, 2015

Graham Fogg covers the fundamentals of groundwater, including different types of overdraft, sustainable yields, and basin salt balance, as well...

California Water Policy Seminar Series: Scientists discuss restoration and reconciliation in the Delta

June 12, 2014

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

California Water Policy Seminar Series: Money, Water and Fish: Prospects for Reconciliation

May 27, 2014

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

California Water Policy Seminar Series: A regulator perspective on balancing environmental and economic interests

May 20, 2014

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

California Water Policy Seminar Series: Farms, floods, fowl and fish on the Yolo Bypass: Can we all get along here?

May 12, 2014

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

California Water Policy Seminar Series: Professor Hap Dunning and Justice Ronald B. Robie discuss groundwater regulation and more

April 3, 2014

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

California Water Policy Seminar Series: Reconciling Ecosystem Goals for San Francisco Bay

March 31, 2014

Although the concept of ‘reconciliation ecology’ was articulated by Michael Rosenzweig in the early 2000s, the idea of coming together...

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