Flood management oversight hearing, part 1: Addressing California’s growing flood risk Maven Best of the Notebook March 10, 2015With 7 million Californians and $600 billion in assets at risk, Assembly oversight hearing examines the state’s liability for flood...
Panel Discussion: Allocating water during drought Maven Event coverage March 4, 2015At the PPIC’s Managing Drought conference, State Water Board Chair Felicia Marcus, David Guy, Bill Croyle, and Jill Duerig reflect...
Conserving ecosystems during droughts Maven Event coverage February 4, 2015Chuck Bonham, Sandy Matsumoto, Dr. Peter Moyle, and Tim Quinn discuss how to prepare for the next drought, including developing...
Lessons from Australia’s millennium drought Maven Best of the Notebook January 27, 2015An Australian water official discusses the key policy initiatives that Australia enacted to respond to long-term exceptional drought conditions In...
Michael Anderson, State Climatologist: Climate, Drought, and Change Maven Best of the Notebook January 26, 2015The state climatologist discusses the current drought and the signs of climate change. Is the current drought a harbinger of...
California Water Policy Seminar Series: Money, Water and Fish: Prospects for Reconciliation Maven Best of the Notebook May 27, 2014The California Water Policy Seminar Series, presented by the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences and the law school’s California...
California’s water system faces a funding drought: New PPIC report says resources and reforms needed Maven Other News Item March 13, 2014New PPIC Report highlights the resources and reforms needed for rural communities, flood protection, stormwater pollution, and aquatic ecosystems From...
Maven’s Minutes: Jay Lund on managing Delta ecosystem reconciliation adaptively Maven Best of the Notebook November 21, 2013At the State of the Estuary conference held at the end of October, Professor Jay Lund from UC Davis Watershed...
PPIC Panel: Permitting a Solution: Regulatory Oversight in the Delta Maven Best of the Notebook September 28, 2013In April of 2013, the Public Policy Institute of California released the report, Stress Relief: Prescriptions for Healthier Delta Ecosystem,...
Maven’s Minutes: PPIC Panel discusses how science is done in the Delta Maven Science on the Notebook June 26, 2013In April of 2013, the Public Policy Institute of California released the report, Stress Relief: Prescriptions for a Helathier Delta,...
Maven’s Minutes: PPIC panel talks adaptive management Maven Best of the Notebook June 20, 2013In April of 2013, the Public Policy Institute of California released the report, Stress Relief: Prescriptions for Healthier Delta Ecosystem,...
New PPIC report prescribes relief for the Delta’s ailing ecosystem Maven News and Features April 30, 2013While there may not be an miracle cure for the ailing Delta, there is a path forward that would achieve...
The PPIC Plan: Making the Delta a place where the wild things want to be Maven Best of the Notebook October 23, 2012Note: The following is a summary of the PPIC report, “Where the Wild Things Aren’t: Making the Delta a Better...
Ecosystem stressors in the Delta: More than just flow Maven Best of the Notebook October 8, 2012For more than two decades, native fishes in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta have been declining at a rapid rate with...
