Monthly Archives: April 2018

Resurrecting the Delta for Desirable Fishes

Posted on April 29, 2018 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

by Peter Moyle, Carson Jeffres, John Durand The Delta is described in many ways.  When extolling the Delta as a tourist destination, it is described as a place of bucolic beauty; islands of productive farmland are threaded by meandering channels of … Continue reading →

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Modeling, Measuring, and Comparing Crop Evapotranspiration in the Delta

Posted on April 23, 2018 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

by Jesse Jankowski Crop evapotranspiration (ET) is the biggest managed loss of water in California, accounting for roughly 80% of human net water use, and includes crop water applications transpired from plants and evaporated from soil. Methods to estimate ET … Continue reading →

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Reality Check of California Water Fix Model results in a Critical Flow Year

Posted on April 15, 2018 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

by William Fleenor In 2008 a group from the Center for Watershed Sciences (including this author), joined by an economist from the Public Policy Institute, published findings that suggested that an alternative conveyance for Sacramento River water might improve ecological … Continue reading →

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Groundwater Recovery in California – Still Behind the Curve

Posted on April 8, 2018 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

by Thomas Harter and Bill Brewster California has a unique and highly variable climate in which drought reoccurs periodically. California began this century in a dry period from 1999 to 2005, and experienced droughts from 2007 to 2009, and 2012 … Continue reading →

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Brown is the new gold: Water strategy is starting to pay dividends

Posted on April 1, 2018 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

by Nan Frobish Governor Brown has unveiled a sweeping new strategy, “Brown is the New Gold,” to simultaneously make California more robust to drought, secure private water rights, buffer California’s growers against disastrous losses from a looming national trade war, … Continue reading →

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