Monthly Archives: July 2017

Fish, flows, and 5937 – legal challenges on the Santa Maria River

Posted on July 30, 2017 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

by Karrigan Bork, JD, PhD Driving down the 101, you cross a half-mile long bridge over the Santa Maria River into the city of Santa Maria, California. It’s a large bridge, with big levees to constrain the river on either … Continue reading →

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Water wasted to the sea?

Posted on July 24, 2017 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

by James E. Cloern, Jane Kay, Wim Kimmerer, Jeffrey Mount, Peter B. Moyle, and Anke Mueller-Solger This article originally appeared in the journal San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science.   If we farmed the Central Valley or managed water supplies for … Continue reading →

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A simplified method to classify streams and improve California’s water management

Posted on July 16, 2017 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

by Belize Lane, Sam Sandoval, and Sarah Yarnell Alterations to the natural flow regime for human water management activities have degraded river ecosystems worldwide. Such alterations are particularly destructive in regions with highly variable climates like California, where native riverine … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Cadillac Desert

Posted on July 9, 2017 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

by Jay Lund In 1986, when Mark Reisner published his book Cadillac Desert, I had just begun professing on water management. The book went “viral,” before the word viral had its present-day internet-intoxicated meaning.  The book offered a compelling revisionist … Continue reading →

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San Joaquin Valley Water Supplies – Unavoidable Variability and Uncertainty

Posted on July 2, 2017 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

by Brad Arnold1, Alvar Escriva-Bou2, and Jay Lund1 1 UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences 2 Public Policy Institute of California Passage of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) and the recent drought have brought attention to chronic shortages of … Continue reading →

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